Justin Pinta

Biographic Data

ID1712703
NAMEJustin Pinta
GIVEN NAMESJustin
FAMILY NAMEPinta
SIGNATUREPINTA J
AFFILIATIONSMississippi State University
ORCID0000-0003-2422-1871
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • The influence of Guarani on gender agreement in Paraguayan and Correntino Spanish

    Open AccessElizabeth Dudek, Elizabeth Herring Dudek et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Linguistic…2024

    In this paper we analyze the influence of Guarani, a genderless language, on patterns of gender agreement in two distinct Spanish varieties, Paraguayan Spanish and Correntino Spanish. Using two unique conversational corpora, we show that, of the two varieties, Paraguayan Spanish more closely resembles Standard Spanish in patterns of gender agreement, but the cases of nonagreement that do occur are found in a wide variety of linguistic contexts, r…

  • The Perceptual Origin of Added Glottals in Spanish Loans in Modern Nahuan

    Hugo Salgado, Justin PintaARTICLEInternational Journal of American…2024References: 43

    Spanish vowel-final loans are consistently adopted in modern Nahuan languages with an added glottal phoneme: Spanish mesa > Nahuan mesah ‘table’. This adaptation is puzzling because there is no obvious aspect of the phonological or morphological grammar of Nahuan that motivates it. We present evidence that, due to the weakened voicing of Spanish utterance-final vowels, Nahuan speakers perceive Spanish vowel-final words in utterance-final position…

  • Correntino Spanish Memes and the Enregisterment of Argentine Guarani Loanwords

    Open AccessJustin PintaARTICLELanguages2023Cited by: 2References: 27

    The intense contact between Guarani and Spanish in the Argentine province of Corrientes has produced a wide array of mutual contact effects, the most visible being widespread borrowing in both directions. This article examines a previously unreported feature of Argentine Guarani loans in Correntino Spanish: the social value they have acquired. Building on the growing body of work in sociolinguistics on internet memes, which are sites of phenomena…

  • Gender Agreement in Correntino Spanish

    Open AccessJustin PintaARTICLEJournal of Language Contact2022References: 8

    This article provides qualitative and quantitative analyses of variable gender agreement in Correntino Spanish, the variety of Spanish spoken by both Spanish-Guarani bilinguals and Correntino Spanish monolinguals in the province of Corrientes, Argentina. Drawing on data collected from fieldwork in the province, it will be shown that this variation is conditioned by distance effects and modifier class. Synchronic gender agreement variation in Corr…

  • Guarani Linguistics in the 21st Century

    Bruno Estigarribia, Justin PintaBOOKGuarani linguistics in the 21st…2017

    In Guarani Linguistics in the 21st Century Bruno Estigarribia and Justin Pinta bring together a series of state-of-the-art linguistic studies of the Guarani language. Guarani is the only indigenous language of the Americas that is spoken by a non-indigenous majority. In 1992, it achieved official status in Paraguay, on a par with Spanish. Current language planning efforts focus on its standardization for use in education, administration, science,…

  • Guarani linguistics in the 21st century

    Bruno Estigarribia, Justin PintaBOOKGuarani linguistics in the 21st…2017

    In 'Guarani Linguistics in the 21st Century' Bruno Estigarribia and Justin Pinta bring together a series of state-of-the-art linguistic studies of the Guarani language. Guarani is the only indigenous language of the Americas that is spoken by a non-indigenous majority. In 1992, it achieved official status in Paraguay, on a par with Spanish. Current language planning efforts focus on its standardization for use in education, administration, scienc…