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The article analyses five different types of texts where Spanish and Guaraní languages come into contact. Three are texts from Paraguayan periodicals (two from general newspapers, one in Spanish, one in Guarani, one from a tabloid in Spanish), one is an example of spoken language where both languages mix together, and the last one is an example of purist Guarani. It focuses on differences in the insertion of Spanish elements in Guarani texts and Guarani elements in Spanish texts. It aims at discriminating which differences have social, cultural, and pragmatic causes, and which are caused by structural (typological) differences between the two languages, such as the constrains on borrowing of fusional affixes. The differences between different types of texts can be seen as register variation: for example, in Spanish any presence of Guarani items is a feature of informality, while the presence of Spanish items in Guarani is acceptable in formal register in the case of content items, while the functional words are characteristic of more colloquial registers.
