A grammar of Paraguayan Guarani / Bruno Estigarribia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Estigarribia, Bruno, author.

Series:

Grammars of world and minority languages.

Grammars of world and minority languages

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Guarani language--Grammar.

Guarani language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 366 pages).

Place of Publication:

London : UCL Press, [2020]

Summary:

The history of Guarani is a history of resilience. Paraguayan Guarani is a vibrant, modern language, mother tongue to millions of people in South America. It is the only indigenous language in the Americas spoken by a non-ethnically-indigenous majority, and since 1992, it is also an official language of Paraguay alongside Spanish. This book provides the first comprehensive reference grammar of Modern Paraguayan Guarani written for an English-language audience. It is an accessible yet thorough and carefully substantiated description of the language's phonology, morphosyntax, and semantics. It also includes information about its centuries of documented history and its current sociolinguistic situation.

Contents:

1. Introduction

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

3. Nominals

4. Verbs

5. Postpositions

6. Voice

7. Evidentiality

8. Basic clauses

9. Quantification

10. Degree expressions

11. Noun incorporation into the verb

12. Complex sentences

13. Information structure

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

15. Thematic glossary of high frequency vocabulary

16. Text samples

17. Paradigms

18. Common phrases and expressions.

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