Guarani info request

Trebor Jung wrote at 2004-09-17 17:22:00 (-0400)
 >
 > In the Conlang Collaboration group, Paul Bennett írta: "...let me
 > quickly summarise the split-S language Guarani, because it's quite
 > interesting:
 >
 > "Transitive verbs ('give', 'steal', 'know') take A and O
 > Intransitive verbs ('go', 'remain', 'follow') take S_a
 > Quality verbs (used for adjectives) take S_o
 >
 > "Transitive and Intransitive verbs may be placed in the
 > imperative. Quality verbs cannot."
 >
 > This sounds pretty cool! Does anyone have any other info on
 > Guarani? (Quotes from books would be appreciated... :) ) I've read
 > a bit about its phonology online and that's pretty cool too...
 >

Have you read conlanger Daniel Andréasson's thesis on active
languages?  It includes a section on Guaraní, among others.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be online any more - I have a copy,
but it's a pdf - do you have any software that can manage that?

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