NTC's Spanish Grammar

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Este trabajo constituye una descripcion funcional de una variedad poco estudiada del guarani paraguayo: el guarani -correntino-, modalidad tradicional del guarani del nordeste argentino. El estudio presenta las caracteristicas fonologicas y gramaticales de esta variedad en vistas a comprender el grado de su diferenciacion dialectal asi como su posicion dentro de los dialectos del guarani meridional - criollo e indigena - hablado en las tierras bajas sudamericanas. Con una vision comparativa, entablando una discusion permanente con destacados autores de esta larga tradicion de estudios (Emma...

This collection of papers addresses the wide variety of questions that arise when Spanish (or any language) comes into contact with other languages. Which languages are used and under what circumstances? How do languages change and affect each other in a bilingual or multilingual environment? How do societal pressures, cultural stereotypes, and individual attitudes affect language use and development, or even result in the death of a language? Spanish in Contact is organized into three sections, examining contact situations in Spain, Latin America, and the United States. The authors look at...

La vitalidad de una lengua no s lo se mide por su cantidad de habitantes, sino tambi n por el n mero de mbitos en los cuales es capaz de rendir frutos cabales. Ciencia, tecnolog a, comercio, educaci n, literatura, finanzas y diplomacia, entre otros, son mbitos fundamentales que, de no ser abarcados adecuadamente, acarrean una incapacidad de designar el mundo contempor neo y una consecuente p rdida de prestigio que puede precipitar, a mediano o a largo plazo, un proceso de decadencia: los hablantes perciben su lengua como pobre, los ajenos a ella no ven utilidad alguna en aprenderla y entonces ...