Unidad y diversidad del guaraní posjesuítico. La expresión de la pluralidad como rasgo de fragmentación dialectal y normativa.

The last third of the 18th century and the first of the 19th century constitutes the era of Guarani writing wich developes relatively independent of the missionary standard. In effect, the Jesuit standard, whose institutional support existed only until the expulsion of the fathers in 1768, began to diminish and new expressive traditions are registered in the paper. Around this problem we propose the study of the expression of plurality as an indicator of dialectal and evolutionary aspects in the dialect system of colonial Guarani. If missionary grammars present plurality as a non-necessary feature of the language, in the "post-reduction" corpus we find an increase in the use of two morphemes, the canonical form (r)-eta and the suffix -kuéra, the latter not registered in Jesuit grammars as a pluralizer. Added to these devices are strategies of an emerging bilingual society that includes code mixing. Defining hypotheses about the conditions that motivate the use of the different mechanisms of pluralization is the objective that guides this work. The data come from a corpus divided into three groups: a) indigenous letters, b) texts of the revolutionary period, and c) the first documents of Paraguayan Guarani. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]