Tobatí: Paraguayan Town

Reportative evidentiality in Paraguayan Guaranı́

Judith Tonhauser, The Ohio State University This talk explores the meaning of the Paraguayan Guaranı́ reportative evidential clitic =ndaje, based on corpus data and data collected in fieldwork, and compares its distribution and meaning to that of (reportative) evidential markers in e.g. St’át’imcets (Matthewson et al. 2007), Quechua (Faller 2002, 2007), Cheyenne (Murray 2010), and Tagalog (Schwa...

Is Paraguayan Guaranı́ a Tenseless Language?∗

A seroepidemiologic survey of Chagas' disease in two Paraguayan villages.

As in many Latin American countries, Chagas’ disease is a serious endemic public health problem in Paraguay. Vector studies conducted in various parts of the country through the mid-1970s found the principal Chagas’ disease vector, Triatoma infestans, to be present in all the areas surveyed, with the recorded house infestation indexes generally being in the 20-30 % range (I). More recently, sur...

On the Prosodic Coding of Focus in Paraguayan Guaraní

An utterance conveys meaning not just through the words that are uttered (and the way these words combine to form larger expressions), but also through its prosody, i.e. its rhythm and tune. The contribution of prosody to the truth-conditional meaning of an utterance as well as to its informationstructural meaning, i.e. the way in which the utterance is used in discourse, is determined at the i...

Productivity , Technical Efficiency , and Farm Size in Paraguayan Agriculture

This essay assesses the relationship between farm size and productivity. Both parametric and nonparametric methods are used to derive efficiency measures. Smaller farms are found to have higher net farm income per hectare, and to be more technically efficient, than larger farms. JEL Classifications: Q12, O12