32.3790, Books: A Grammar of Paraguayan Guarani: Estigarribia

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Subject: 32.3790, Books: A Grammar of Paraguayan Guarani: Estigarribia

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Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2021 07:56:31
From: Alison Fox [uclpresspublishing at ucl.ac.uk]
Subject: A Grammar of Paraguayan Guarani: Estigarribia

 


Title: A Grammar of Paraguayan Guarani 
Series Title: Grammars of World and Minority Languages  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: UCL Press
	   http://www.uclpress.co.uk
	

Book URL: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/138755 


Author: Bruno Estigarribia

Hardback: ISBN:  9781787353220 Pages: 388 Price: U.K. £ 50
Online resource: ISBN:  9781787352872 Pages: 388 Price: U.K. £ 0 Comment: Open access PDF- free to download!
Paperback: ISBN:  9781787352926 Pages: 388 Price: U.K. £ 30


Abstract:

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 open access 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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Guaraní, Paraguayan (gug)


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=157473




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