Research

Areas of Interest

• Language Documentation of Rusitène (Rosetano, Calabrian (Lucano-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)

In Preparation

1. Estigarribia, Bruno. Fundamentos para el análisis lingüístico del español: Conceptos y métodos. Second complete draft finished, expected by LangSci Press, Open Access Publisher in February 2025 for review.

Publications (since 2013)

BOOKS

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.

BOOK CHAPTERS

1. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2024. La variación morfosintáctica del español paraguayo. In Manuel Diaz-Campos & Juan M. Hernández Campoy, Enciclopedia Concisa de los Dialectos del Español (ENCODES). Wiley-Blackwell Publishers Ltd. (By editors’ invitation)

2. Estigarribia, Bruno and Ernesto López Almada. 2023. Poro-/mba'e  antipassive prefixation in Paraguayan Guarani. In Cilene Rodrigues and Andrés Saab (Eds.), Formal Approaches to Languages of South America. Springer. (By editors’ invitation) 

3. Estigarribia, Bruno, Justin Pinta, and Ernesto López Almada. 2022. Guarani influence on Spanish in contact situations: A comparison between Paraguayan and Correntino Spanish. In Kathryn Bove and Mark Waltermire (Eds.), Mutual Influence in Situations of Spanish Language Contact in the Americas. Routledge. 134–157. (By editors’ invitation)

4. Avellana, Alicia and Bruno Estigarribia. 2022. El español en Paraguay. In Francisco Moreno-Fernández and Rocío Caravedo (Eds.), Handbook of Spanish Dialectology. Taylor & Francis/Routledge. (By editors’ invitation)

5. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2021. Mecanismos de derivación morfológica en el guaraní paraguayo. In Alejandra Vidal & Ignacio Telesca (Eds.), Historia y lingüística guaraní. Homenaje a Bartolomé Meliá. Asunción: CEADUC. (By editors’ invitation)

6. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2017. A grammar sketch of Paraguayan Guarani. In Guarani Linguistics in the 21st Century, ed. by Bruno Estigarribia and Justin Pinta, 7–85. Leiden: Brill.

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, 315–347. Leiden: Brill.

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

REFEREED PAPERS/ARTICLES 

1. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2021. A diachronic account of exceptional nasalization patterns in Guarani causatives. International Journal of American Linguistics 87(2). 203–241.

2. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2021. 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.  664–697.

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.

Presentations (since 2013)

1. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2024. Language speakers, language grammars, language lives: A linguist's approach to indigenous languages. Center for Latin American Studies & Spanish and Portuguese Linguistics Colloquium, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 12 April 2024.

2. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2024. Guarani-Spanish contact and code-mixing. In ILA 386/FR 396K Borderless Language seminar. (Graduate Seminar). Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas at Austin, March 27th, 2024.

3. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2023. Closing Plenary: Reflexividad y funciones "medias" en Tupí-Guaraní: Morfosintaxis comparativa, contacto y reconstrucción evolutiva. ELIG II Encuentro latinoamericano de interfaces gramaticales, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo and Instituto de Ciencias Humanas, Sociales y Ambientales (INCIHUSA-CONICET), Mendoza, Argentina, 20 October 2023.

4. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2023. Diachronic Morphosyntax in South American Languages: Directions Forward. 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea - SLE 2023, Athens, Greece, 29 Aug 2023.

5. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2023. Teoría y práctica del contacto de lenguas con aplicación al caso guaraní-castellano. Universidad Nacional de Misiones, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, Departamento de Antropología Social, Posadas, Misiones, Argentina, 9 May 2023.

6. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2023. Grammatical borrowings in Guarani-Spanish contact: A Usage-Based Model. Monographic session 11: Reestructuración, relexificación y creación de variedades a partir de materiales hispánicos: de Schuchardt a la ecología lingüística actual en el contexto de las Humanidades Digitales. XXIII Congreso de la Asociación Alemana de Hispanistas/XXIII. Deutscher Hispanistentag. 23 February 2023. 

7. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2022. Digital Humanities and Language Documentation. ROMS Colloquium, 31 August 2022. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Romance Studies.

8. Estigarribia, Bruno & Ernesto López Almada. 2022. Antipassive voice in Paraguayan Guarani. 55th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2022), Bucharest, Romania, 25 August 2022.

9. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2022. Antipassive prefixation in Paraguayan Guarani. Typological features and comparison with noun incorporation. 25th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (ISTAL), Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics of the School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Greece, 14 May 2022.

10. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2022. Reflexive/passive syncretism in Tupi-Guarani and the emergence of a middle voice in Paraguayan Guarani. 42nd Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics, School of Philology (AMGL42), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Greece, May 6, 2022.

11. Estigarribia, Bruno & Ernesto López Almada. 2022. Antipassive prefixation and noun incorporation in Guarani. 42nd Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics, School of Philology (AMGL42), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Greece, May 7, 2022.

12. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2022. Antipassive prefixation and noun incorporation in Guarani. Fourth Symposium on Amazonian Languages (SAL 4), University of California Berkeley, 3 April 2022.

13. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2022. Prefijación antipasiva en guaraní paraguayo desde un punto de vista tipológico. Workshop internacional de tipologia linguística (Tipologia II ALFAL), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain, January 12, 2022.

14. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2021. Grammar Writing and the Standardization Process of Guarani. Panel: “Conversion, Translation, Standardization: Methodological Challenges to Studying and Promoting Tupi-Guarani Languages from the Sixteenth Century to Today”. American Society for Ethnohistory Conference, Duke University, November 10-14, 2021.

15. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2021. An examination of linguistic, sociohistorical, and cognitive factors at play in Guarani-Spanish contact and mixing. Seminar ILA 386 Linguistics Code-Switching. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas at Austin, October 11th, 2021.

16. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2021. Invited Keynote: Grammar writing for incompletely standardized majority languages: the case of Paraguayan Guarani. Tulane Conference on Linguistics (T-CoL) 2021, “Tales from the Field”, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 10 April 2021.

17. Estigarribia, Bruno. 2020. Invited Keynote: 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.

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. 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.

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

22. 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.

23. 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.

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

25. 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.

26. 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.

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

28. 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.

29. 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.

30. 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.

31. 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.

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

33. 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.

34. 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.

35. 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.

36. 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

37. 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.

38. 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.

39. 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

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

41. 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.

42. 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.

43. 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.