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consonants in Bhojpuri because they have been presented as breathy sonorants
previously.

e) Texts were collected from different genres of Bhojpuri. But those texts may
create this study voluminous, so, only a few of them have been included in
annexes, as suggested. Likewise, glossary prepared from the data has not

annexed as advised because Prajñá Bhojpuri-Bhojpuri-Nepali-English
Dictionary has already been published and marketed by the Nepal Academy.

1.7 Organization of the study
This study has been organized mainly into two parts: introductory and

descriptive. The introductory part includes introduction, theoretical framework of the
study and the sociolinguistic features of Bhojpuri. The descriptive part presents

descriptions of the language. This work includes 16 chapters. Chapter 1 is
introduction of the research. Chapter 2 presents theoretical framework of the study.
Chapter 3 presents some sociolinguistic aspects of Bhojpuri. Chapter 4 deals with

phonology and we introduce morphophonology in Chapter 5. In Chapter 6, we
describe the word classes and Chapter 7 presents simple verbal clauses and argument

structure. Chapter 8 examines grammatical relations and case-marking and we present
noun phrases and word order in Chapter 9. Chapter 10 inspects on tense, aspect and

modality and Chapter 11 presents non-declarative speech-acts. Chapter 12 examines
marked topics and contrastive focus constructions and Chapter 13 describes inter-

clausal coherence. The referential coherence is presented in Chapter 14 and Chapter
15 presents typological implications. At last we present summary and conclusions in
Chapter 16. Samples of the analyzed texts are given in Annex V, followed by

references in alphabetical order.

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