Grammaticalization, Language Contact, and the Emergence of a Hortative in Guaraché, a New Mixed Language in Paraguay

This paper discusses the emergence of a hortative marker in Guaraché, new mixed language Paraguay, result mixing Indigenous Aché and Paraguayan Guaraní. After settlement on reservations, formerly nomadic hunter-gatherers began shifting to national Guaraní, resulting which is currently learned by children as their first language. Guaraché speakers have incorporated parts lexicon morphology from Guaraní into verbal repertoires, including inflectional morphology. Thereby, they are modeling use 1pl.in ja-/ña- specific function that it has mood. Neither nor grammatical markers. Such reanalysis transfer only one suggests novel distinction emerging between for free pronoun ñande/nande all other cases 1pl.in. analyzes constructions corpus recordings naturally occurring interactions adults. case grammaticalization strong indicator gradual transformation language-mixing practices