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Hoernle (1880) is a work on a comparative grammar of the Gaudian
languages. It is in special reference to the Eastern Hindi. Hoernle adopts Gaudian for

Sanskrit affinities considering it the least objectionable and the most convenient. His
analogy might be considerable as all vernaculars in North-India are not Hindi.
Likewise, he takes Western and Eastern Hindi synonymous with Braj and Bhojpuri

respectively, claiming that the two are the principal vernaculars among others. He also
admits that his subject is grammar of Bhojpuri more prominently. In this way the

work can easily be considered as Bhojpuri Grammar in comparison with some other
North-Indian languages what Hoernle terms as Gaudian.

Singh (1967) is the first comparative work on grammars of Bhojpuri and Hindi
and Arun (1972) on comparative study of Bajjika, Hindi and Bhojpuri. Masica (1976)

is a work on areal typology of South Asia. Pandey (1979) is a work on comparative
study of Angika and Bhojpuri grammars. Zograph (1982) is a work on languages of
South Asia that Bhojpuri belongs to.

Masica (1991) is a work on the Indo-Aryan languages. It describes features of
the new Indo-Aryan languages in general. So, it is not any specific work on Bhojpuri.

But we find some grammatical categories of Bhojpuri described in paradigms with the
other neighbours of Bhojpuri. Srivastava, S. (1999) is a work on Bhojpuri vocabulary.

As a native Bhojpuri speaker by birth she makes it clear that the work is not merely
collection of all vocabularies in Bhojpuri but compilation of those typical words that

are now at verge of extinction. Kushawaha (2005) is a comparative study on negative
and interrogative transformation in English and Bhojpuri. Mehta (2006) is a
comparative study on subject-verb agreement in Bhojpuri and English and shows

form and function relation of the Bhojpuri utterances in all tenses, aspects and moods
and compared them with those of English. Jaiswar (2007) is a comparative study of

passivization in English and Bhojpuri. As the work is a comparative study, it focuses
on the process of passivization in both the languages. Lohar (2007) is a paper on
sociolects of Bhojpuri. As the other Indo-Aryan languages do, Bhojpuri has east-west

geographical variation getting influenced by its neighbouring languages Maithili and
Awadhi respectively. Kalwar (2008) is a comparative study on forms of suggestion in

English and Bhojpuri. The work seems to be oriented on study of forms and function
of suggestion in the two languages. Yadav (2008) is a dissertation on case in Bhojpuri

and English. As it is centred on only a topic of grammar, it describes the case system
in detail in both the languages. Patel (2009) is a study on semantic analysis of English

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