Abstract
In contexts of reduplication in Paraguayan Guaraní [gug, Tupí-Guaraní, Paraguay], two syllables are copied.The position of the reduplicant is variable, but morphophonologically conditioned. With data from apparentbase-reduplicant mismatches, I evaluate three possible analyses of reduplication. Contrary to previousaccounts of reduplication in Tupí-Guaraní (Everett & Seki, 1985; Rose, 2005; Hamidzadeh, 2013), I arguethat the reduplicant in Paraguayan Guaraní is best analyzed as an infix: specifically, a suffix to the stressedvowel. Reduplication in Paraguayan Guaraní is sensitive to stress assignment, which is determined by theprosodic structure, and the reduplicant is a disyllabic suffix to a stressed vowel. The vowel to which thereduplicant attaches may lie within any prosodic word: therefore, both attested and unattested types ofvariability in reduplicant position fall out from this account. I additionally propose that synchronic variationis evidence of an ongoing reanalysis of the position of the reduplicant in Paraguayan Guaraní from a suffix tothe stressed vowel towards a suffix to the prosodic word, in line with free suffix order in the language.
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