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dc.contributor.authorEstigarribia, Bruno
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-08T12:15:32Z
dc.date.available2021-12-08T12:15:32Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifierONIX_20211208_9781787352872_5
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51773
dc.description.abstractThe 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. Examples come from literary sources and film, scholastic grammars, online newspapers, blogs and other publications, publicly accessible social media data, and the author’s own fieldwork. They are specifically chosen to reflect the diversity of uses of modern-day Guarani, with the aim of providing a realistic picture of the current state of the language in twenty-first century Paraguay. This book will benefit researchers and students of Guarani and Paraguay, such as linguists, anthropologists, ethnographers, sociologists, historians, or cultural studies and literature scholars. Typologically-oriented researchers and students of other Tupian and Amerindian languages will have reliable data for comparative purposes. Given the unique socio-historical profile of Guarani, researchers in fields such as language contact, bilingualism, code-switching, language planning, language education, and literacy will find this book a valuable reference resource.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesGrammars of World and Minority Languages
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFD Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics::CFDC Language acquisitionen_US
dc.subject.otherGuarani
dc.subject.otherParaguayan Guarani
dc.subject.otherlanguage
dc.subject.otherSouth America
dc.subject.otherindigenous language
dc.subject.otherParaguay
dc.subject.otherSpanish
dc.subject.othergrammar
dc.subject.othersociolinguistic
dc.subject.otherscholastic grammars
dc.subject.otherlinguists
dc.subject.otheranthropologists
dc.subject.otherethnographers
dc.subject.othersociologists
dc.subject.otherhistorians
dc.subject.othercultural studies
dc.subject.otherliterature scholars
dc.subject.otherTupian language
dc.subject.otherAmerindian language
dc.subject.otherlanguage contact
dc.subject.otherbilingualism
dc.subject.othercode-switching
dc.subject.otherlanguage planning
dc.subject.otherlanguage education
dc.subject.otherliteracy
dc.subject.otherpunctuation
dc.titleA Grammar of Paraguayan Guarani
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.14324/111.9781787352872
oapen.relation.isPublishedBydf73bf94-b818-494c-a8dd-6775b0573bc2
oapen.relation.isbn9781787352872
oapen.relation.isbn9781787352926
oapen.relation.isbn9781787353220
oapen.imprintUCL Press
oapen.place.publicationLondon


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