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k. FTG generally makes use of a mix of elicited and discourse data. However,
the emphasis placed upon the discourse data to provide more natural database

upon which the description is based.
l. FTG, particularly, in the areas of phonology and morphology attempts to
describe languages in a more user-friendly fashion by including semantic

considerations in its analyses, and by employing terminology that has been
used for similar phenomena in other languages.

m. FTG admits the phoneme as probably the most central concept in describing
the phonology of a language. It uses generative phonology and the descriptive

tools of more recent phonological theories.
n. FTG redefines syntax in terms of propositional information and discourse

pragmatic function, and thus about the relation between the function of
grammatical devices and their formal properties.
o. Since FTG believes in evolution it obviously also believes in universals, both

formal and functional. The functional universals guide diachrony, then,
diachrony produces structural universals as well as typological diversity.

p. FTG proposes that the cross-language typological diversity at whatever level
must be based on a study of representative diversity of types whereas other

functionalists remain committed to the existence of language universals,
presumably both of meaning/function and grammatical structure.

q. FTG is strongly committed to the view of language as primarily an instrument
of communication, and to the importance of this in explaining why languages
are as they are (Butler, 2003a:49).

r. FTG focuses the centrality of semantics and pragmatics as the motivating
factors of the syntax of a language.
s. FTG organizes the linguistic materials in terms of the three ‘functional realms’ coded

by syntax: lexical semantics, propositional semantics and discourse pragmatics.

2.4 Summary
For this study, the perspective of FTG with adaptive approach to grammar
might be summarized as an appropriate theoretical framework. It is so because Bhojpuri

has certainly been described earlier but not in the shape Bhojpuri looks within. Within
this framework, the Bhojpuri language has been described as it is along with

explanations why Bhojpuri is the way it is. This framework prefers 'source of terms' to
be under theory specific terminology, unlike the formal ones. FTG with adaptive

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