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Table15.14 Morphosyntactic features of the NIA languages and Bhojpuri
Morphosyntactic features NIA Bihari Bhojpuri

1. Affixation + + +
Suffix + + +

Prefix + + +
Infix – + +

2. Person/number marking + + +
3. Gender marking + + (fading eastward)

4. Lexical reflexive + + +
5. Adjectival word order (A-N) + + +

Demonstrative word order (Dem-N) + + +
Numeral word order (Num-N) + + +

General adjectival word order (Dem-Num-A) + + +
6. Ergativity + – –

7. Antidative + + +
8. Compound case

9. 'Vertical' verbs + + +
10. Morphological valence increasing strategies + + +

11. Evidentiality + + +
12. Honorificity in pronominals & finite verbs + + +

13. Numeral classifiers + + +
15. Verbal with nominal and adjectival functions + + +

15. Finite subordinate clauses + + +
Thus, the typological implications discussed in this chapter attest the theoretical

framework of functional-typological and adaptive approach to grammar for this study.

2. The table has been prepared on the basis of Grierson (1883), Masica (1991:86-132) and Chapter 6-13
of this study.
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