Bruno Estigarribia
Biographic Data
| ID | 960406 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruno Estigarribia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruno |
| FAMILY NAME | Estigarribia |
| SIGNATURE | ESTIGARRIBIA B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3988-2795 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The "reflexive" prefix je- in Tupi-Guarani
The aim of this paper is to analyze the different functions of the "reflexive" prefix je- in Tupi-Guarani in order to provide an updated reconstruction of its etymon in Proto-Tupi-Guarani and to hypothesize possible developmental paths that can yield the current distribution of functions observed in the family. I show that the Proto-Tupi-Guarani etymon *je- is likely to have had the following functions: Reflexive, Holistic reference to body-part …
A Grammar of Paraguayan Guarani
Guaran (ALG, de aqu en ms), que se ha abocado tanto a su descripcin como a su estandarizacin desde su creacin en el ao 2012.No obstante, si bien valiosos para la implementacin de polticas lingsticas y educativas, los trabajos anteriormente citados, de corte ms prescriptivista y normativo, suelen centrarse en una nica variedad del guaran: el guaraniet (tambin llamado "guaran acadmico" o "guaran culto"), asociado con la lengua escrita, y rara vez r…
A Speech Planning Account of Guarani Grammatical Borrowings in Paraguayan Spanish
Previous studies view the use of Guarani grammatical morphemes in Paraguayan Spanish simply as grammatical borrowings (if one focuses on the morphosyntactic status of mixed forms) or as an ill-defined “interference”. But so far there has been no examination of the bilingual planning mechanisms that license and constrain these language mixes. In this paper, I explore the idea that the emergence of grammatical borrowings can be explained by message…
A Diachronic Account of Exceptional Progressive Nasalization Patterns in Guarani Causatives
Nasal harmony in Paraguayan Guarani spreads mostly leftward in a morphological word. This regressive nasalization is triggered by a phonologically nasal consonant or stressed nasal vowel and does not affect voiceless stops. A limited process of progressive nasalization affects morpheme-initial voiceless stops across a morpheme boundary. Many forms that include a causative prefix show this kind of progressive nasalization. However, this nasal spre…
A biclausal account of Clitic Left-Dislocations with epithets in Rioplatense Spanish
Clitic Left-Dislocations with Epithets in Rioplatense Spanish (CLLD+ep) are sentences with three apparently co-referential direct object constituents: a clitic-left-dislocated topic DP (DP-LD), a clitic (CL) and a post-verbal epithet (DP-ep). Previous studies have proposed that the DP-ep is licensed in-situ as Clitic Doubling and the DP-LD base-generated, or that the DP-ep and the DP-LD are licensed together in a predicative small clause doubled …
Lessons from the English auxiliary system
The English auxiliary system exhibits many lexical exceptions and subregularities, and considerable dialectal variation, all of which are frequently omitted from generative analyses and discussions. This paper presents a detailed, movement-free account of the English Auxiliary System within Sign-Based Construction Grammar (Sag 2010, Michaelis 2011, Boas & Sag 2012) that utilizes techniques of lexicalist and construction-based analysis. The result…
Analyzing the structure of code-switched written texts
As more written language data become available, the interest in written language mixing / codeswitching (LM/CS) is increasing (Sebba, Mahootian & Jonsson 2012;Sebba 2013). LM/CS in non-naturalistic (e.g., literary) texts raises issues related to gauging (1) the authenticity and representativity of a textual corpus, and deciding (2) whether categories/mechanisms of spoken LM/CS apply to written LM/CS.1We focus on Guarani-Spanish LM/CS (Jopara) as …
Guarani Linguistics in the 21st Century
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
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…
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 11
We have divided the present volume into three major representative subfields, with four articles each: Syntax-Semantics, Morphosyntax
Guarani Morphology in Paraguayan Spanish
In this paper we examine the use of Guarani affixes and clitics in colloquial Paraguayan Spanish. We depart from the traditional view of these as "borrowings," and instead explore the idea that these phenomena can be integrated within Muysken's (2000, 2013, 2014) typology of code-mixing. We claim that most of these uses may stem from a strategy of backflagging that bilingual speakers employ to mark their use of a (historical, colonial) L2 (Spanis…
Guaraní-Spanish Jopara Mixing in a Paraguayan Novel
We study the highly idiosyncratic case of Paraguay, the only American nation where an indigenous language has survived as a majority language spoken by the non-indigenous population. Jopara is the name of the commonly used code that mixes Guaraní and Spanish. Characterizations of Jopara in the literature are inconclusive. Some authors call it a variety of Spanish, some a variety of Guaraní, others a new mixed language. The choice of one character…
Language in interaction
Using speech and gesture to introduce new objects to young children
Adults rely on both speech and gesture to provide children with information pertinent to new word meanings. Parents were videotaped introducing new objects to their children (aged 1;6 and 3;0). They introduce these objects in three phases: (1) they establish joint attention on an object; (2) they introduce a label for it; (3) they situate the object conceptually. Parents used labels and gestures to maintain attention on the object; with one-year-…
Getting and maintaining attention in talk to young children
When two people talk about an object, they depend on joint attention, a prerequisite for setting up common ground in a conversational exchange. In this study, we analyze this process for parent and child, with data from 40 dyads, to show how adults initiate joint attention in talking to young children (mean ages 1 ; 6 and 3 ; 0). Adults first get their children's attention with a summons (e.g. Ready? , See this? ), but cease using such forms once…
Guaraní-Spanish Jopara Mixing in a Paraguayan Novel
We study the highly idiosyncratic case of Paraguay, the only American nation where an indigenous language has survived as a majority language spoken by the non-indigenous population. Jopara is the name of the commonly used code that mixes Guaraní and Spanish. Characterizations of Jopara in the literature are inconclusive. Some authors call it a variety of Spanish, some a variety of Guaraní, others a new mixed language. The choice of one character…
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 11
We have divided the present volume into three major representative subfields, with four articles each: Syntax-Semantics, Morphosyntax
Lessons from the English auxiliary system
The English auxiliary system exhibits many lexical exceptions and subregularities, and considerable dialectal variation, all of which are frequently omitted from generative analyses and discussions. This paper presents a detailed, movement-free account of the English Auxiliary System within Sign-Based Construction Grammar (Sag 2010, Michaelis 2011, Boas & Sag 2012) that utilizes techniques of lexicalist and construction-based analysis. The result…
Guarani Morphology in Paraguayan Spanish
In this paper we examine the use of Guarani affixes and clitics in colloquial Paraguayan Spanish. We depart from the traditional view of these as "borrowings," and instead explore the idea that these phenomena can be integrated within Muysken's (2000, 2013, 2014) typology of code-mixing. We claim that most of these uses may stem from a strategy of backflagging that bilingual speakers employ to mark their use of a (historical, colonial) L2 (Spanis…
Using speech and gesture to introduce new objects to young children
Adults rely on both speech and gesture to provide children with information pertinent to new word meanings. Parents were videotaped introducing new objects to their children (aged 1;6 and 3;0). They introduce these objects in three phases: (1) they establish joint attention on an object; (2) they introduce a label for it; (3) they situate the object conceptually. Parents used labels and gestures to maintain attention on the object; with one-year-…
A Speech Planning Account of Guarani Grammatical Borrowings in Paraguayan Spanish
Previous studies view the use of Guarani grammatical morphemes in Paraguayan Spanish simply as grammatical borrowings (if one focuses on the morphosyntactic status of mixed forms) or as an ill-defined “interference”. But so far there has been no examination of the bilingual planning mechanisms that license and constrain these language mixes. In this paper, I explore the idea that the emergence of grammatical borrowings can be explained by message…
Getting and maintaining attention in talk to young children
When two people talk about an object, they depend on joint attention, a prerequisite for setting up common ground in a conversational exchange. In this study, we analyze this process for parent and child, with data from 40 dyads, to show how adults initiate joint attention in talking to young children (mean ages 1 ; 6 and 3 ; 0). Adults first get their children's attention with a summons (e.g. Ready? , See this? ), but cease using such forms once…
Using speech and gesture to introduce new objects to young children
Adults rely on both speech and gesture to provide children with information pertinent to new word meanings. Parents were videotaped introducing new objects to their children (aged 1;6 and 3;0). They introduce these objects in three phases: (1) they establish joint attention on an object; (2) they introduce a label for it; (3) they situate the object conceptually. Parents used labels and gestures to maintain attention on the object; with one-year-…
Language in interaction
Guaraní-Spanish Jopara Mixing in a Paraguayan Novel
We study the highly idiosyncratic case of Paraguay, the only American nation where an indigenous language has survived as a majority language spoken by the non-indigenous population. Jopara is the name of the commonly used code that mixes Guaraní and Spanish. Characterizations of Jopara in the literature are inconclusive. Some authors call it a variety of Spanish, some a variety of Guaraní, others a new mixed language. The choice of one character…
Guarani Linguistics in the 21st Century
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
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…
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 11
We have divided the present volume into three major representative subfields, with four articles each: Syntax-Semantics, Morphosyntax
Guarani Morphology in Paraguayan Spanish
In this paper we examine the use of Guarani affixes and clitics in colloquial Paraguayan Spanish. We depart from the traditional view of these as "borrowings," and instead explore the idea that these phenomena can be integrated within Muysken's (2000, 2013, 2014) typology of code-mixing. We claim that most of these uses may stem from a strategy of backflagging that bilingual speakers employ to mark their use of a (historical, colonial) L2 (Spanis…
Analyzing the structure of code-switched written texts
As more written language data become available, the interest in written language mixing / codeswitching (LM/CS) is increasing (Sebba, Mahootian & Jonsson 2012;Sebba 2013). LM/CS in non-naturalistic (e.g., literary) texts raises issues related to gauging (1) the authenticity and representativity of a textual corpus, and deciding (2) whether categories/mechanisms of spoken LM/CS apply to written LM/CS.1We focus on Guarani-Spanish LM/CS (Jopara) as …
Lessons from the English auxiliary system
The English auxiliary system exhibits many lexical exceptions and subregularities, and considerable dialectal variation, all of which are frequently omitted from generative analyses and discussions. This paper presents a detailed, movement-free account of the English Auxiliary System within Sign-Based Construction Grammar (Sag 2010, Michaelis 2011, Boas & Sag 2012) that utilizes techniques of lexicalist and construction-based analysis. The result…
A biclausal account of Clitic Left-Dislocations with epithets in Rioplatense Spanish
Clitic Left-Dislocations with Epithets in Rioplatense Spanish (CLLD+ep) are sentences with three apparently co-referential direct object constituents: a clitic-left-dislocated topic DP (DP-LD), a clitic (CL) and a post-verbal epithet (DP-ep). Previous studies have proposed that the DP-ep is licensed in-situ as Clitic Doubling and the DP-LD base-generated, or that the DP-ep and the DP-LD are licensed together in a predicative small clause doubled …
A Speech Planning Account of Guarani Grammatical Borrowings in Paraguayan Spanish
Previous studies view the use of Guarani grammatical morphemes in Paraguayan Spanish simply as grammatical borrowings (if one focuses on the morphosyntactic status of mixed forms) or as an ill-defined “interference”. But so far there has been no examination of the bilingual planning mechanisms that license and constrain these language mixes. In this paper, I explore the idea that the emergence of grammatical borrowings can be explained by message…
A Diachronic Account of Exceptional Progressive Nasalization Patterns in Guarani Causatives
Nasal harmony in Paraguayan Guarani spreads mostly leftward in a morphological word. This regressive nasalization is triggered by a phonologically nasal consonant or stressed nasal vowel and does not affect voiceless stops. A limited process of progressive nasalization affects morpheme-initial voiceless stops across a morpheme boundary. Many forms that include a causative prefix show this kind of progressive nasalization. However, this nasal spre…
A Grammar of Paraguayan Guarani
Guaran (ALG, de aqu en ms), que se ha abocado tanto a su descripcin como a su estandarizacin desde su creacin en el ao 2012.No obstante, si bien valiosos para la implementacin de polticas lingsticas y educativas, los trabajos anteriormente citados, de corte ms prescriptivista y normativo, suelen centrarse en una nica variedad del guaran: el guaraniet (tambin llamado "guaran acadmico" o "guaran culto"), asociado con la lengua escrita, y rara vez r…
The "reflexive" prefix je- in Tupi-Guarani
The aim of this paper is to analyze the different functions of the "reflexive" prefix je- in Tupi-Guarani in order to provide an updated reconstruction of its etymon in Proto-Tupi-Guarani and to hypothesize possible developmental paths that can yield the current distribution of functions observed in the family. I show that the Proto-Tupi-Guarani etymon *je- is likely to have had the following functions: Reflexive, Holistic reference to body-part …
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