Bruno Estigarribia- PhD Linguistics, Stanford U.
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bruno Estigarribia
- PhD Linguistics, Stanford U.
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Published work in linguistic typology assumes that Paraguayan Guarani lacks an antipassive. In this contribution, we provide evidence that an analysis of the prefixes poro- and mba’e- (often considered incorporated nouns) as antipassive voice markers is more consistent with the range of data involving incorporated objects and/or object prefixation....
Pocos casos existen donde una lengua conquistada haya podido convertirse en la lengua oficial de un Estado y hablada por la mayoría de su población. La lengua guaraní, de raíz indígena, pervive a través de los siglos y se expande geográficamente.
Poblaciones indígenas y no indígenas habitantes de Paraguay, Argentina, Brasil, Bolivia, España, Estad...
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 thi...
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 provide...
'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-g...
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,...
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 categor...
This collection brings together current research on a range of phenomena in French, Spanish, Occitan and Italian, that will be of interest to scholars and students of Romance and general linguistics. The volume includes 12 peer-reviewed articles, first presented at the 44th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), divided into three sectio...
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...
Rioplatense Spanish Clitic Left Dislocations with epithets contain a left-dislocated direct object DP, an in situ direct object epithet DP, and a direct object clitic, all three apparently referring to the same event participant. Previous proposals have focused on syntactic licensing mechanisms but how the epithet’s meaning is integrated in the sen...
The Journal of Language Contact (JLC) is a peer-reviewed journal. It provides a forum for discussion of general perspectives and accepts contributions of any orientation on the principle that reasoned argumentation enriches our understanding of language contact.
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 var...
Presentamos la triplicación de clíticos (TCL) en español rioplatense como una construcción en la que dos frases nominales y un clítico comparten la función objeto (directo) de un predicado transitivo y analizamos su función comunicativa como la de permitir al hablante una mayor flexibilidad a la hora de asignar estatus informacionales a distintos c...
Fragile X syndrome (FXS) and Down syndrome (DS) are the two leading genetic causes of intellectual disability, and FXS is the most common known genetic condition associated with autism. Both FXS and DS are associated with significant language impairment, but little is known about expressive language across domains over time or the role of autism in...
Highly abstract predicates (e.g. think) present a number of difficulties for language learners (Gleitman et al., 200521.
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Trueswell , J. 2005. Hard words. Language Learning and Development, 1: 23–64. [Taylor & Francis Online]View all references). A partial solution to learning thes...
El español expresa objetos directos mediante clíticos, sintagmas nominales independientes lexicales o pronominales, o ambos (doblado de clíticos). Esta última estructura presenta problemas para las teorías sintácticas que asumen que cada argumento de un predicado puede ser expresado una sola vez. Mucho se ha escrito sobre la representación estructu...
Purpose
To examine which cognitive, environmental, and speech-language variables predict expressive syntax in boys with fragile X syndrome (FXS), boys with Down syndrome (DS), and typically developing (TD) boys, and whether predictive relationships differed by group.
Method
We obtained Index of Productive Syntax (Scarborough, 1990) scores for 18 b...
The field of language acquisition has long suffered from a lack of serious, real dialogue between competing approaches. It is to be welcomed, then, that researchers of Ambridge and Lieven's caliber are spearheading a movement toward more collaboration in understanding the complexities, advantages, and disadvantages of different viewpoints. Child la...
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 objec...
We examined recalled narratives of boys with fragile X syndrome with autism spectrum disorder (FXS-ASD; N=28) and without ASD (FXS-O; N=29), and compared them to those of boys with Down syndrome (DS; N=33) and typically developing boys (TD; N=39). Narratives were scored for mentions of macrostructural Story Grammar elements (Introduction, Relations...
Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is the most common inherited cause of intellectual disability, and the most common single gene disorder associated with autism. Language impairments in this disorder are well documented, but the nature and extent of syntactic impairments are still unclear.
To compare the performance of boys with FXS with and without autism...
This study advances the hypothesis that optional structural variation in language facilitates syntactic learning (facilitation-by-variation). Support for this is provided by a right-to-left-elaboration acquisition model for English yes/no questions (YNQs). Previous studies have focused on the acquisition of ''inverted'' YNQs, a cornerstone of nativ...
On average, language and communication characteristics of individuals with Down syndrome (the most common genetic cause of intellectual disability) follow a consistent profile. Despite considerable individual variability, receptive language is typically stronger than expressive language, with particular challenges in phonology and syntax. We review...
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...
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Question (1)
I am particularly interested in constructions that are not identifiable via regular expressions (see, e.g., Dufter 2009 "Clefting and Discourse Organization" where he could use regular expressions because he could look for co-occurring closed sets of words. I am interested in constructions such as Spanish Clitic Left-Dislocation for which the only constant part is the clitic, but the dislocated phrases form an infinite set).
