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Table 9.2: Grammatical morphemes modifying a noun phrase 269
Table 10.1: Verb-stems and their infinitive and participle paradigms 301

Table 10.2: Paradigms of the verb खा /kʰɑ/ 'eat' in past tense 304

Table 10.3: Paradigms of the verb देख /dekʰ/ in past tense 304

Table 10.4: Paradigms of the verb खा /kʰɑ/ 'eat' in future tense 307
Table 10.5: Paradigms of the verb देख /dekʰ/ 'see' in future tense 308

Table 10.6: Paradigms of the verb खा /kʰɑ/ 'eat' in present tense 310

Table 10.7: Paradigms of the verb देख /dekʰ/ 'see' in present tense 311

Table 10.8: Paradigms of the copula रह /rʌɦ/ 'be' in past progressive 316

Table 10.9: Paradigms of the verb खा /kʰɑ/ 'eat' in present habitual 325
Table 10.10: Paradigms of the verb देख /dekʰ/ 'see' in present habitual 325

Table 10.11: Distribution of modality in tense-aspect 332

Table 11.1 Patterns of passivization in Bhojpuri 374
Table 11.2 Activation of passive roots in Bhojpuri 376
Table 13.1 Interrogatives, relatives and correaltives in Bhojpuri 494

Table 14.1: Personal pronouns in Bhojpuri: First person 505
Table 14.2: Personal pronouns in Bhojpuri: Second person 506

Table 14.3: Personal pronouns in Bhojpuri: Third person 507
Table 14.4: Demonstrative pronouns in Bhojpuri 511

Table 14.5: Interrogative pronouns in Bhojpuri 511
Table 14.6: Indefinite/non-referring pronouns in Bhojpuri 513

Table 14.7: Permutations of the constituents of the clauses 519
Table 15.1: Reduction of gemination 555
Table 15.2: Nasalization of the vowel or replacing the consonant with nasal 555

Table 15.3: Loss of nasal 556
Table 15.4: Phonological features of the NIA languages and Bhojpuri 557

Table 15.5 Phonological features of Bhojpuri and its close neighbours 558
Table 15.6 Case markers in Bhojpuri and its close neighbours 562
Table 15.7 Borrowed prefixes 564

Table 15.8 Bhojpuri prefixes 564
Table 15.9 Bhojpuri infixes 564

Table 15.10 Negative affixes 565

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