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c) How are the morphosyntactic features of the language realized at the
propositional and multi-propositional levels in the language?

d) Why is this study typologically significant?
1.2 Objectives of the study
The main objective of this study is to present the linguistic analysis of the

Bhojpuri language from the functional-typological perspective with adaptive approach
to grammar. The specific objectives of the study are as follows:

a) To present the socio-linguistic aspects of the language;
b) To analyze the phonetic, phonological and the morphophonemic aspects of

the sounds as well as lexicon in the language;
c) To analyze morphosyntactic properties of the language at propositional

and multi-propositional levels; and
d) To present the typological implications of the study.
1.3 Review of the literature

Attempts have been made by different grammarians to describe grammar of
Bhojpuri from different aspects. The important works include Beames (1868),

Kellogg (1876), Hoernle (1880), Grierson (1883; 1884a-b and 1903), Tiwari (1954
and 1960), Singh (1967), Trammell (1971), Arun (1972), Nirbhik (1975), Masica

(1976), Pandey (1979), Shukla (1981), Ojha (1982), Zograph (1982), Srivastava
(1983), Marhé (1985), Tripathy (1987), Srivastava, S. (1999), Srivastava, V. (1999),

Ashk et al. (2002 and 2003), Verma (2003), Anjoria (2004a and b), Vairagi (2004),
Kushawaha (2005), Das (2006), Lohar (2006), Mehta (2006), Jaiswar (2007), Lohar
(2007), Sharma and Ashk (2007), Kalwar (2008), Lohar (2008), SCERT (2008),

Singh, R. (2008), Singh, V. (2008), Yadav (2008), Lohar (2009), Patel (2009), Singh
(2009), Lohar (2010), Upadhyay (2010), Boodhoo (2011), Thakur (2011), Khatri

(2012), Mishra and Bali (2014) and Thakur et al. (2017). These works exhibit the
following approaches to linguistic analysis:
(a) Traditional approach

(b) Structural approach
(c) Transformagional-generative approach

(d) Comparative approach
(e) Functional-typological approach

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