| | A Grammar of Bora with Special Attention to Tone(Updated) (SIL International Publications in Linguistics) by Wesley Thiesen, David Weber Paperback, 586 Pages, Published 2012 by Sil International, Global Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-55671-301-9, ISBN: 1-55671-301-0
"This is the first comprehensive linguistic study of Bora, a typologically unusual language spoken in Colombia and Peru, the result of four decades of work among the Bora people. The language has an exceptionally high number of classifiers (over 300). These classifiers are used in various ways to carry out reference. By means of these classifiers, apposition is the primary mechanism for creating referring expressions, rather than the mor ..."
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