LINGUIST List: Vol-32-3211. Mon Oct 11 2021. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.
Subject: 32.3211, Books: A Grammar of Bhojpuri: Thakur
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Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 21:29:44
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: A Grammar of Bhojpuri: Thakur
Title: A Grammar of Bhojpuri
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Indo-European Linguistics 55
Publication Year: 2021
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
http://www.lincom-shop.eu
Book URL: http://lincom-shop.eu/epages/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d/Products/%22ISBN%209783969392331%22
Author: Gopal Thakur
Hardback: ISBN: 9783969392331 Pages: 404 Price: Europe EURO 178
Abstract:
This is a grammar of Bhojpuri within the framework of the
functional-typological and adaptive approaches to grammar developed by T.
Givόn. Bhojpuri, an Indo-Aryan language, is spoken mainly in the districts of
central Madhesh (Sarlahi-Rupandehi) in Nepal and the adjacent Indian
territories of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh with other provinces, too. Global
migration has also spread it worldwide. This grammar analyzes the forms and
functions of different grammatical categories of the language and compares
them to the characteristic structural features of Indo-Aryan languages in the
framework. Mainly based on the field study, this grammar examines
morphosyntactic structures manifesting the relationship between linguistic
forms and functions at both sentence and discourse levels of the form mainly
from the Bara-Parsa variety of Bhojpuri.
Besides a long grammar-writing tradition, this grammar is the first, written
in the way of Bhojpuri, displaying aspirate sonorants, triphthongization,
phonemic word-stress, smaller to greater order of counting, declension of
adverbs, development of genuine prefixes and infixes, allocutive agreement and
absence of gender marking (in eastern variety), use of present tense copula bɑ
with its negative counterpart nʌikʰe, verbless utterances in proverbs and
relative clauses and clause-final plural maker particles sʌ, sʌn and jɑ with a
consistent nominative-accusative pattern.
Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
Typology
Subject Language(s): Bhojpuri (bho)
Written In: English (eng)
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