A Grammar of Bora with Special Attention to Tone

Statement of Responsibility:

Thiesen, Wesley and David Weber

Authors:

Thiesen, Wesley

Weber, David

Series:

SIL International Publications in Linguistics

Date:

2012

Publisher:

SIL International®

Publisher Place:

Dallas, Texas

Part Of Series:

SIL International Publications in Linguistics 148

Extent:

xxxiii, 550 p.

Publication Status:

Published

Table of Contents:

List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Abbreviations and Conventions

1. The Bora People
2. Phonology
3. Tone
4. Word Formation
5. Main Clauses and Verbs
6. Classifiers
7. Nouns and Noun Phrases
8. Pronouns
9. The Genitive Construction
10. Case and Grammatical Relations
11. Clitics
12. Some Minor Categories
13. Negation
14. Imperatives
15. Question Formation
16. Complementation
17. Adverbial Clauses
18. Relative Clauses
19. Some Comments on Discourse

Appendices
A. Dialect Differences
B. Speculations on Diachronic Processes
C. A List of Bound Adjectival Stems
D. Affixes
E.The Bora Classifiers
F. Bora Kinship Terminology
G. Bora Texts
Bibliography
Index

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Peru

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