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and Bhojpuri verbs. Singh (2009) is a detailed work on comparative study of Hindi
and Bhojpuri grammars. The work starts with backgrounds of development of Indo-

Aryan languages with classification of modern Indo-Aryan languages. Upadhyay
(2010) is a comparative study on the grammatical categories of Nepali and Bhojpuri
languages. Going through strengths and weaknesses of the work, it can be concluded

that the research is comparative as well as descriptive. Still it follows Sanskrit
tradition. Besides, it can help in the study to describe Bhojpuri functionally and

Bhojpuri grammar typologically. Mishra and Bali (2014) significantly studies
phonologies of some of the IA languages termed as dialects of Hindi. Thakur et al.

(2017) is a comprehensive work on a multilingual dictionary of the Bhojpuri
language. This is the first work on its kind to serve both the monolingual and the

multilingual aspects of dictionary. This is Bhojpuri-Bhojpuri-Nepali-English
Dictionary with transliteration of the Bhojpuri entry into IPA phonemic symbols. The
work includes over 24,000 entries of Bhojpuri lexemes.

1.3.5 Functional-typological approach
Lohar (2010) is a work on relativization in Bhojpuri. It tries to discuss the

morphosyntax of relativization in Bhopuri with functional-typological perspective.
Thakur (2011) is a preliminary attempt to present Bhojpuri grammar from functional-

typological perspective. It covers sociolinguistic context and phonetic, phonological,
morphological and morphosyntactic description of the language. It also presents inter-

lingual influences in Bhojpuri as well as Bhojpuri semantics. Though it can contribute
in this research, the traditional and structural approaches still look significant in
presentation of Bhojpuri grammar.

The extracts of the prominent works done in Bhojpuri conclude that it is a rich
language with all genres of language, folklore and literature in it. It is an animate

language generationally being transformed in a healthy way. To sum up, the previous
works certainly helps in this study, to some extent, most of them follow either of the
traditional, structural, transformational-generative and comparative approaches. The

works of this researcher reviewed certainly have made efforts to follow the
framework of functional-typological grammar, they are inadequate. Some domains

are still missing as well as some are out of this frame-work.
Therefore, an appropriate presentation of a grammar of Bhojpuri must be

based on the propositional and multi-propositional data from the formal and
functional perspective as well as the data and analysis in the significantly contextual

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