La Primera Gramática del Guarayu: Manuel Viudes, 1841 – copia de Francisco Lacueva: Arte de la Lengua Guaraya. Transcripción del manuscrito de 1841, comentarios, introducción, estudio y análisis

Guarayu is one of the six Tupi-Guarani languagesof eastern Bolivia, The present publication presents the first grammar of the language written around 1820 by the Franciscan missionary Francisco Lacueva, a text that is lost today, but was copied in 1841 by Manuel Viudes in the Bolivian mission. The work presents the manuscript with comments and corrections and linguistically classifies the grammar into the now partially visible development from about 1820 to today. The data on the current language level was provided by co-author Swintha Danielsen, who lived with the Guarayos for several years. The language data obtained in this way are systematically compared with those of the other Bolivian languages of the same family and related to each other in a new classification. All language examples occurring in the grammar of Viudes or Lacueva are linguistically analysed. The work is completed by a glossary of the words found in Viudes/Lacueva, Guarayu Spanish and Spanish-Guarayu.

iii, 307 pages

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URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-65978523243
DOI: 10.17879/65978521531

ISBN
978-3-8405-0295-8

Language
Spanish

Print edition
La Primera Gramática del Guarayu : Manuel Viudes, 1841 – copia de Francisco Lacueva: Arte de la Lengua Guaraya ; Transcripción del manuscrito de 1841, comentarios, introducción, estudio y análisis / Wolf Dietrich und Swintha Danielsen. – Berlin : epubli, 2024. – iii, 307 pages. (Wissenschaftliche Schriften der Universität Münster : Reihe XII ; Bd. 40), ISBN 978-3-8187-1107-8, price €38,86