Index
Abbi, Anvita
195
ablative
146
additive focus clitic
315
addressee
75, 79, 99, 109, 189, 225, 244
addressee marking
12, 179, 180, 243
adjunct
161, 299, 322
adversative
279, 283
affixation
51–53
agentive
55, 248
allophone
19–20, 22–23, 27, 30, 43
alternative conditional
297
attributive possession
107–108
Austro-Asiatic
1, 13, 15
auto-benefactive
199
Bahuvrihi
57
Bengali
2, 7, 8, 51
benefactive
196, 199, 273
Bhojpuri
7, 8, 11, 13, 15, 20, 26, 131
Bokāro district
2, 3, 5, 10, 11, 42, 87, 154, 159, 178, 200, 225, 271, 281, 326
breathy nasals
19, 20, 25, 26
Campbell, A.
12, 131
cardinal numerals
48, 60, 98, 171, 251
causative
183, 184–187, 196
Chikā chiki Khortha
2, 7
classifiers
121–135
comparative degree
159–160
complement clause
235, 282, 310–313
complex predicates
195
compounding
56
conditional clauses
297–298, 301–303
conjunctions
50, 279, 282–286
conjunct characters
16
conjunct verbs
47, 205–209
conjunctive participle
237
consonant change
41–42
content question
256, 263
contrastive clauses
283
converb
143, 196, 236, 237, 288, 290
copula
187–195
copulative compound
57
correlated conjunctions
279, 286
Cristofaro, Sonia
310
Damodar river
5, 112, 147, 289
Darai
7, 8, 85
declarative
253
deictic expressions
109
definiteness
86, 118, 122, 251
demonstrative
109–112
dependency
44
derivation of verbs
73
derivational morpheme
54–55
derived adverbs
170–171
Deswali
2, 5
Devanāgarī
9, 16, 18, 40
diminutives
175–176
direct and indirect speech
312–313
direction marker
259
disjunctive
256, 279, 282–283
distributive number
48
distribution of consonants
33–35
Dixon, Robert M.W.
310
double classifiers
138
dubiative use of questions
263–264
duplication
51, 58
echo words
58–61
Emeneau, M.
59
ergative
93, 94, 96, 103, 105, 212
exocentric compound
57
extensional
146, 153, 159, 287
focus clitic
41, 316, 319–320
gender
89–92
gemination
36–37
generic
122, 301, 303
genitive
41, 100–103, 105, 110, 139, 141, 145
genitive subjects
275
glide insertion
42
Golwari
2, 5, 175
Golwāri pailā
174
Gotiya
66
Grierson, Sir George Abraham
7
Gungu
83–84
Guiya
84
habitual
177, 219, 220, 272–274
hair terms
15
Haspelmath, Martin
297
Henten
281–282
Hiakhalas
76
Hindi
1, 7, 9, 12, 14, 15, 24, 27, 33, 38, 47, 51, 53, 172, 224, 251, 276, 285
Ho
15
homophonous
99, 103, 114, 152, 200, 226, 256, 270, 309
honorific marking
108–109
Hook Peter E.
xii, 195, 205
ideophone
165
imperative
39, 214, 223, 224, 228, 253
imperfective converb
237–239
indicative
222, 226
indefinite pronouns
115–117
inferential
221
insistive
315, 326
insults
77–80
interrogative pronoun
113–115, 126, 133, 170, 254, 258, 300
intransitive verb
92, 93, 181, 197, 200, 202
instrumental
93, 99, 272, 275–276
instrumental-marked subjects
275–276
Jha, A.K.
1, 13, 16, 46, 159
Johar
75, 76
juxtaposition
286
Khaḍgaḍihi
5
Khortha lipi (script)
16
kinship terms
81–84
Kodermia
5
Korpa
84
Kuṛmali
1, 6, 7, 15, 35, 58, 76, 122, 178
Kurux
15
language classification
6–9
lexical borrowings
12–14, 17, 38
lexicalized echo forms
66–69
lexico-semantic aspects
75
lingua franca
12, 243, 353
linker
178, 204, 215, 236, 237, 270, 287
locative
91, 99, 103, 140
Magahi
1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 13, 14, 65, 242
Maithili
2, 7, 15, 27, 111, 174
Masica, Colin P.
26, 195
measure words
135–138
measurement system
174–175
melodic overwriting
59
minor sentence types
49, 259
modal verbs
209
mood
222
multiplicatives
174
Munda
2, 11, 12, 13, 45, 65, 101, 131, 243
Mundari
2, 13, 106, 130
Nagpuri
xi, xii, 1, 7, 10–15, 51, 76, 85, 94, 108
nasalized vowels
32–33
Neukom, Lukas
243
nominative
93–94
nominalizer
40, 228, 229–232, 308
non-finite clauses
287, 292, 303, 308, 310
non-nominative subjects
272–276
numerals
44, 48, 121, 127, 128, 131, 171
oblique
41, 96–99
Ohdar, B.N.
9, 167, 234, 271, 296
optative
228, 267
Oraon
11, 173, 174
ordinal numbers
173–174
Oriya
8, 122
Paila
174–175
Pānuri, Shriniwās
9
Panchpargania
1, 7, 11, 13, 58, 76, 122
participle
42, 52, 68, 126, 129, 233–236
particles
44, 119, 276, 315, 317, 320, 327
part-whole relations
102
passive auxiliary
269–271
passivization
268, 270
Parnadiya
3, 5, 30, 89, 224, 328, 333
pause words
328
Persian
52, 65, 72
Perso-Arabic
12, 65
Peterson, John
1, 7, 94, 103, 146, 178, 209
phonotactics
33–43
Phul pran
83
plurality
45, 49, 63, 85, 86, 89, 106, 113, 115, 262
polar questions
255–256
postpositions
44, 48, 59–60, 102, 139–154
poly-personal argument marking
180, 184, 240, 241, 243
Pramanik, Shivnath
5, 9, 112, 248, 298
predicative possession
275
progressive
215–217
prohibition
276
prohibitive
223
purposive
287–288
prefixation
51
Rāmgaṛhiyā
2, 5
reason clause
285–286
reduplication/repetition
61–63
reflexive
114–115
relative/correlative clauses
303–310
relative pronoun
117–118
reverse duplication
71
ritualized relationships
83–84
Sadani
1, 7, 8, 11, 13, 245
Sadri/Nagpuri
1, 7, 10, 51, 143
Sahiya
84
Sanskrit
12, 16, 17, 51, 53, 264, 351
Santali
2, 5, 11, 12, 13, 65, 85, 106, 131, 283
Santal parganiya
5, 8, 15
Santhāl parganas
2, 3, 5, 11
Sarhul
3, 5, 161, 192
scalar concessive conditional
297
semantic reduplication
64–66
sequential
237, 288, 291
Shukla, Shaligram
20, 26
Sikhari
2, 3, 5, 11, 14, 87, 94, 96, 121, 133, 187, 224, 333
specificity
118, 122–123
stem-internal vowel shift
40–41
Stiebels, Barbara
310
stress and length
42–43
subjunctive
222, 226, 227, 228
subordinate clause
226, 227, 279, 287, 297, 310
suffixation
53
superlative
160–161
syllable structure
37–38
taboo and insulting words
77–81
terminative marker
151
temporal clitic
164, 258
temporal measure words
137–138
Tharu
26
Tiwari, Udai Narain
13, 131
topic marker
315, 321
universal concessive conditional
297
universal quantifier
48–49
valency increasing devices
184
verbal affixes
177–180
vigesimal system
172
vocatives
327
vowel change
38
vowel deletion
39
vowel sequence
31–32
zero copula
264
Zwicky, Arnold
315