Research

Areas of Interest

  • Language Documentation of Rusitène (Rosetano, Calabrian, Southern Italy)

  • Language Documentation of Guarani varieties

  • Code-switching

    • Guarani-Spanish (Jopara)

    • Structural and typological approaches to language mixing

  • Syntax

    • Argentinian Spanish

    • Clitic Doubling and other argument multiplication phenomena: clitic left-dislocations, clitic "tripling" (i.e. clitic left-dislocations with epithets or augments), split NPs

  • Computational Linguistics

    • Computational tools for Spanish Linguistics (dialect identification, automatic harvest of syntactic constructions)

  • Language Acquisition

    • First language acquisition (especially syntax and morphology) in typical and atypical development (autism, fragile X syndrome, Down syndrome)

Recent Publications (since 2013)

BOOKS & CHAPTERS

  1. Estigarribia, Bruno. Forthcoming June 2020. A Reference Grammar of Paraguayan Guarani. Grammars of World and Minority Languages Series. London, UK: UCL (University College London) Press.

  2. Estigarribia, Bruno and Justin Pinta (Eds.). 2017. Guarani Linguistics in the 21st Century. BRILL, Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (BSILA) Series.

  3. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2017. Insertion and backflagging as mixing strategies underlying Guarani-Spanish mixed words. In Guarani Linguistics in the 21st Century, ed. by Bruno Estigarribia and Justin Pinta, 315–347. Leiden: Brill.

  4. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2017. Introduction. In Guarani Linguistics in the 21st Century, ed. by Bruno Estigarribia and Justin Pinta, 1–6. Leiden: Brill.

  5. Arnon, Inbal, Marisa Casillas, Chigusa Kurumada, and Bruno Estigarribia (Eds.). 2014. Language in interaction: Studies in honor of Eve V. Clark. Trends in Language Acquisition (TiLAR) Series. Amsterdam-Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

REFEREED PAPERS/ARTICLES

  1. Estigarribia, Bruno. Accepted. A diachronic account of exceptional nasalization patterns in Guarani causatives. International Journal of American Linguistics.

  2. Estigarribia, Bruno. Accepted. A speech planning account of Guarani grammatical borrowings in Paraguayan Spanish. Journal of Language Contact, special issue Usage-based Contact Linguistics: Effects of frequency and similarity in language contact, ed. by Ad Backus and Nikolay Hakimov.

  3. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2020. A biclausal account of Clitic Left-Dislocations with epithets in Rioplatense Spanish. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 5(1): 33. 1–12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1008

  4. 3. Sag, Ivan A., Rui P. Chaves, Anne Abeillé, Bruno Estigarribia, Dan Flickinger, Paul Kay, Laura A. Michaelis, Stefan Müller, Geoffrey K. Pullum, Frank Van Eynde, and Tom Wasow. 2020. Lessons from the English Auxiliary System. Journal of Linguistics 56(1), 87–155. doi:10.1017/S002222671800052X.

  5. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2018. Analyzing the structure of code-switched written texts: The case of Guaraní-Spanish Jopara in the novel Ramona Quebranto. Linguistic Variation, special issue “Romance (Parsed) Corpora”, ed. by Christina Tortora, Beatrice Santorini, and Frances Blanchette. 121–144.

  6. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2017. A grammar sketch of Paraguayan Guarani. In Guarani Linguistics in the 21st Century, ed. by Bruno Estigarribia and Justin Pinta.

  7. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2017. Insertion and backflagging as mixing strategies underlying Guarani-Spanish mixed words. In Guarani Linguistics in the 21st Century, ed. by Bruno Estigarribia and Justin Pinta.

  8. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2017. Introduction. In Guarani Linguistics in the 21st Century, ed. by Bruno Estigarribia and Justin Pinta.

  9. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2017. Guarani morphology in Paraguayan Spanish: insights from code-mixing typology. Hispania, 100(1).

  10. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2017. The Semantics of Spanish Clitic Left Dislocations with epithets. Probus 29(2). 287–322.

  11. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2017. Automatic detection of syntactic patterns from texts with application to Spanish Clitic Doubling. Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 11 (RLLT11). Selected papers from the 44th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), ed. by David Heap, Silvia Perpiñán, Itziri Moreno-Villamar, and Adriana Soto-Corominas, 169–188. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Co.

  12. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2015. Guaraní-Spanish Jopara mixing in Paraguay: Does it reflect a third language, a language variety, or true codeswitching? Journal of Language Contact, 8(2). 183–222.

  13. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2014. La estructura informacional en la triplicación de clíticos del español rioplatense. Signo y seña. Revista del Instituto de Lingüística de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires25, special issue “Interfaz sintaxis-pragmática”. 105-132.

  14. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2013. Rioplatense Spanish clitic doubling and "tripling" in lexical-functional grammar. Selected Proceedings of the 2011 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, ed. by Chad Howe, Sarah A. Blackwell, and Margaret Lubbers Quesada, 297-309. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

  15. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2013. El modelo de las fuerzas discursivas y el doblado de clíticos rioplatense. Signo y Seña. Revista del Instituto de Lingüística de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires 23.119–142.

  16. Martin, Gary E., Molly Losh, Bruno Estigarribia, and John Sideris. 2013. Longitudinal profiles of expressive vocabulary, syntax, and pragmatic language in boys with fragile X syndrome or Down syndrome. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders 48(4).432-443.

  17. Becker, M. and Bruno Estigarribia. 2013. Harder words: Learning abstract verbs with opaque syntax. Language Learning and Development, 211–244.

Recent Presentations (since 2013)

  1. Estigarribia, Bruno. Forthcoming Invited Keynote 2020. Grammars, textbooks and learning materials for our indigenous languages in the 21st century. Foundation for Endangered Languages Conference, University College (UCL) London, 23-25 September 2020.

  2. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2019. Bilingual speech planning as an explanatory framework for contact effects: Guarani grammatical borrowings, calques and other mixing outcomes in Paraguayan Spanish. Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages 49 (LSRL49), University of Georgia Athens, May 3, 2019.

  3. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2019. Guarani grammatical selective and global copies in Paraguayan Spanish: putting forth a speech planning account. Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World (BHL 2019), Leiden University, Netherlands, January 10th, 2019.

  4. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2018. Using MPI’s ELAN annotator for Spanish Linguistics research and teaching. Ohio State University Hispanic Linguistics Colloquium, Columbus, OH, November 9th, 2018.

  5. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2018. Language planning in Guarani-Spanish mixing. Ohio State University Hispanic Linguistics Colloquium, Columbus, OH, November 9th, 2018.

  6. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2018. Mezcla de código castellano-guaraní: apuntes para un enfoque cognitivo/de procesamiento. Laboratorio de Neurociencia, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 27th, 2018.

  7. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2018. Problemas abiertos en la descripción lingüística del guaraní. Seminar “Presentaciones y Transferencias de Conocimientos sobre Investigaciones en el campo de la Lingüística.” Programa de Licenciatura en Bilinguismo Guaraní-Castellano y Licencia en Lengua Inglesa, Facultad de Humanidades, Ciencias Sociales y Cultura Guaraní, Universidad Nacional de Itapúa, Encarnación, Paraguay, April 10th, 2018.

  8. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2017. Issues in the linguistic analysis of Guarani and Guarani-Spanish contact. UNC American Indian and Indigenous Studies Colloquium, October 13th, 2017.

  9. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2017. Anaphora resolution and predication in Rioplatense Clitic-Left Dislocations with Epithets. Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages 47 (LSRL47), University of Delaware, Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, April 22, 2017.

  10. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2017. Clitic left-dislocations with epithets in Rioplatense Spanish as biclausal constructions. Linguistic Society of America 91st Annual Meeting, University of Texas at Austin, January 5, 2017.

  11. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2016. Clitic left-dislocations with epithets in Rioplatense as biclausal constructions. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2016 (HLS2016), Georgetown University, October 9, 2016.

  12. Estigarribia, Bruno & Brent Eisenbarth. 2016. What determines the properties of Guarani-Spanish (Jopara) code mixing? Historical, cognitive, sociolinguistic and structural considerations. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2016 (HLS2016), Georgetown University, October 8, 2016.

  13. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2016. Socio-historical parameters influencing Guarani morphological borrowings in Paraguayan Spanish. (Round Table: The interaction between social factors and the occurrence of lexico-grammatical contact effects.) Sociolinguistics Symposium 21 (SS21), Universidad de Murcia, June 17, 2016.

  14. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2015. Rioplatense Spanish Clitic Left-Dislocations with Epithets as conventional implicatures. The Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2015 (HLS2015), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, September 25, 2015.

  15. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2015. Clitic Left-Dislocations with Epithets encode conventional implicatures. VII Encuentro de Gramática Generativa (EGG7). Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, July 29, 2015.

  16. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2015. Code-switching strategies in Guarani-Spanish mixed words. The 10th International Symposium on Bilingualism. Rutgers University, New Jersey, May 23, 2015.

  17. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2015. The “One Form, One Meaning” Principle and the interpretive effects of Spanish clitic doubling. SLINKI, Spanish Linguistics in North Carolina 2015. East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, Feb 7th, 2015.

  18. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2015. Mixed words, insertion, and backflagging in Guarani-Spanish contact. Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World, Leiden University, Netherlands, January 14th, 2015.

  19. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2014. Transparency of information structure and clitic tripling of direct objects in Rioplatense Spanish. The Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2014 (HLS2014), Purdue University, November 14th, 2014.

  20. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2014. Identifying Spanish Clitic Doubling on the WWW. Forty-fourth Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL44), University of Western Ontario, London, ON. May 3rd, 2014

  21. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2014. Automatic detection of syntactic patterns from texts with application to Spanish Clitic Doubling. SLINKI, Spanish Linguistics in North Carolina 2014. Appalachian State, Boone, NC, Feb 8th, 2014.

  22. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2013. Fine-tuning a quantitative typology of code-switching: The Deuchar-Muysken-Wang model under the magnifying glass of Guaraní-Spanish mixing. The Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2013 (HLS2013), University of Ottawa, 17-20 October 2013.

  23. Estigarribia, Bruno & Zachary Wilkins. 2013. Analyzing the structure of code-switched written texts: the case of Guaraní-Spanish Jopara. 43rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL43), CUNY Graduate Center, April 18th, 2013

  24. Wilkins, Zachary & Bruno Estigarribia. 2013. Constraints on Written Code-Switching: Evidence from Guaraní/Spanish Jopara. 2013 UNC Spring Linguistics Colloquium. April 13th.

  25. Estigarribia, Bruno & Zachary Wilkins. 2013. Guaraní-Spanish contact in Paraguay: the birth of a third language? The 19th Annual Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures, UNC-Chapel Hill, April 4–6, 2013.

  26. Estigarribia, Bruno & Zachary Wilkins. 2013. Some Uncomfortable Facts about Guaraní-Spanish Jopara Codeswitching. 2013 Duke-UNC CH Consortium in Latin American Studies Conference, Feb 15th, 2013.

  27. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2013. An appositional, constraint-based analysis of clitic tripling in Rioplatense Spanish. SLINKI, Spanish Linguistics in North Carolina 2013. University of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, Jan 26th, 2013.