A grammar of Paraguayan Guarani / Bruno Estigarribia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Estigarribia, Bruno, author.

Series:

Grammars of world and minority languages

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Guarani language--Grammar.

Guarani language.

Physical Description:

xxi, 366 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : UCL Press, 2020.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction

1.1. Overview of the language

1.2. Brief history since the European colonization of the region

1.3. Sociolinguistic information

1.4. Basic pronunciation summary

1.5. Typological information

1.6. Contact with Spanish and other languages

1.7. Guarani as a second or foreign language

1.8. Pointers for students

2. Phonology and orthography: the sound system and its written representation

2.1. Sound inventory and pronunciation (segmental phonology)

2.1.1. Vowels and diphthongs

2.1.2. Consonants

2.2. Suprasegmental phonology

2.2.1. Syllable structure

2.2.2. Stress

2.2.3. Nasal harmony

2.2.4. Prosody sketch: practical considerations for pronunciation

2.3. The alphabet or achegety and modern orthographic - conventions in Paraguay

2.3.1. History of orthographic conventions

2.3.2. Recommended orthography

3. Nominate

3.1. Nouns

3.1.1. Plural marking

3.1.2. Gender marking

3.1.3. Relational (multiform) nominal roots

3.1.4. Functions of noun phrases in a sentence

3.2. Forming nouns from other words

3.2.1. Nominahzations

3.2.1.1. Nominalizing suffixes

3.2.1.1.1. General nominalizer -ha

3.2.1.1.2. Passive -py

3.2.1.1.3. Adjectival -va

3.2.1.1.4. Abstract -kue

3.2.1.2. Nominalizing prefixes

3.2.1.2.1. Resultative/instrumental t-embi-

3.2.1.2.2. Reflexive/passive/impersonal je-

3.2.1.2.3. Reciprocaljo-

3.2.1.2.4. Abstract t-efco-

3.2.1.2.5. Abstract mba'e-

3.2.1.3. Noun compounds

3.2.2. Nominal/adjectival negation

3.2.3. Diminutives and attenuatives

3.3. Adjectival modifiers of the noun

3.4. Determiners

3.4.1. Articles

3.4.2. Demonstratives

3.4.3. Numerals and quantifiers

3.5. Pronouns

3.5.1. Personal pronouns

3.5.2. Interrogative pronouns

3.5.3. Indefinite and negative pronouns

3.5.4. Demonstrative pronouns

3.5.5. Possessive pronouns

3.6. Possessive noun phrases

3.7. Nominal temporal-aspectual markers

4. Verbs

4.1. Intransitive verbs

4.1.1. Active verbs

4.1.2. Inactive verbs

4.2. Transitive verbs

4.3. Ditransitive verbs

4.4. Postpositional complement verbs

4.5. Irregular verbs

4.6. Relational (multiform) verbs

4.7. Verbs with increments

4.8. Verbs with loss of initial consonant

4.9. Verbal negation

4.10. Expressing properties of events: tense, aspect, mood/modality, evidentiality

4.10.1. Tense

4.10.2. Aspect

4.10.3. Mood and modality

4.10.3.1. Expressing commands

4.10.3.1.1. Basic imperative mood

4.10.3.1.2. Imperative modalizers

4.10.3.1.3. Prohibitive mood

4.10.3.2. Expressing possibility and ability

4.10.3.3. Expressing obligation and permission

4.10.3.4. Expressing desire and volition

4.10.3.4.1. Volitivemood

4.10.3.4.2. Hortative and optative mood

4.10.3.5. Expressing negative evaluations

4.11. Verbalizations

4.12. Modifiers of the verb

4.13. Verb compounds

5. Postpositions

5.1. Postpositions marking a predicate's complements

5.2. Postpositions of place

5.3. Postpositions of time

5.4. Other postpositions

6. Voice

6.1. Active voice

6.2. Inactive voice

6.3. Passive/reflexive/impersonal voice

6.3.1. With intransitive verbs: generic and impersonal interpretations

6.3.2. With transitive verbs: passive and reflexive interpretations

6.4. Reciprocal voice

6.5. Antipassive voice

6.6. Causative voice

6.6.1. Causative voice for intransitive verbs

6.6.2. Sociative causative

6.6.3. Causative voice for transitive verbs

7. Evidentiality

7.1. Emphatic and veridical markers

7.2. Markers of hearsay

7.3. Markers of direct evidence

7.4. Markers of reasoned evidence

8. Basic clauses

8.1. Word order in simple clauses

8.2. Predicative and equative clauses

8.3. Location and existence clauses

8.4. Sentences expressing possession

8.4.1. Non-verbal possessive sentences

8.4.2. Verbal possessive sentences

8.5. Questions

9. Quantification

10. Degree expressions

10.1. Comparatives

10.2. Superlatives

11. Noun incorporation into the verb

12. Complex sentences

12.1. Coordinated clauses

12.2. Subordinate clauses

12.2.1. Relative clauses

12.2.2. Complement clauses

12.2.3. Adverbial clauses

12.2.3.1. Purposive

12.2.3.2. Concessive

12.2.3.3. Causal

12.2.3.4. Conditional

12.2.3.5. Manner

12.2.3.6. Temporal

12.2.3.7. Locative

13. Information structure

13.1. Focus

13.2. Topic

14. Order of affixes, clitics and other particles in the predicate

15. Common vocabulary

15.1. Food

15.2. Body parts

15.3. Senses

15.4. Numbers

15.5. Kinship terms

15.6. Animals

15.7. Time

15.8. Dwelling

15.9. Colours

16. Text samples

16.1. Interview

16.2. Narrative

16.3. Poem

16.4. Theatre

16.5. Newspaper article

17. Paradigms

17.1. List of circumfixes

17.2. List of prefixes

17.3. List of postpositional particles

17.4. List of morphemes with consonant allomorphs conditioned by nasal harmony

17.4.1. Affixes and clitics

17.4.2. Roots

17.5. List of relational roots and morphemes

17.6. List of aireal verbs

18. Common phrases and expressions

References

Data sources

Suggested resources

General introductions

Phrasebooks

Textbooks and online courses

Dictionaries

Grammars

Linguistic overviews

Online resources

Online bookshops

Academic works consulted.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-332) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781787352926

1787352927

9781787353220

1787353222

OCLC:

1129018073