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adaptive approach to grammar (Givón, 2009) was mainly used; however, insights
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from other prominent models of linguistic analysis were also utilized.
1.5 Justification of the study
This study attempts to present a linguistic description and analysis on the
sociolinguistic, phonological and morphosyntactic properties of the language. It is of

great significance from different points of view presented below:
a) This study has laid foundation for a much more extensive research on

Bhojpuri and its speech community regarding language and culture spreading
in different parts of the country and abroad.

b) This research has contributed to a significant study of Bhojpuri. It has been
corrected, refined and added to in order to finally arrive at a much prosperous

understanding of the Bhojpuri language.
c) This study has eased the researches on different dialects of Bhojpuri in
particular and other related Indo-Aryan languages spoken particularly in

Madheshi community of the country.
d) The findings of this study may be used for evaluating the empirical adequacy

of the assumptions made in language typology as well as linguistic theories.
1.6 Limitations of the study

This study has the following limitations:
a) This study has primarily been based on the form of the Bhojpuri language

mainly spoken in Bara and Parsa districts of Nepal. The dialects spoken in
Sarlahi, Rautahat, Chitwan, Nawalparasi and Rupandehi districts have also
been taken into consideration as far as practicable in the study.

b) Mainly the study purports to describe the language from the formal and
functional perspective. However, the insights from other models of linguistic

analysis have also been taken for analysis of the language.
c) The morphosyntactic properties of the language have been typologically
compared with that of other related languages spoken in Madheshi community

of Nepal as far as possible.
d) As phonological descriptions of Bhojpuri have already been presented from

different points of view, the researcher has only analyzed devoicing sonorant

4. Chapter 2 deals with the theoretical framework in detail.
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