A phonological and grammatical sketch of Surgujia, an Indo-Aryan language of Central India

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Name: Schubert, Bettina Adele Peterson

Organization : Payap University. Department of Linguistics

LCSH: Surgujia language -- Phonology

LCSH: Surgujia language -- Grammar

LCSH: Indo-Aryan language

Classification :.DDC: 410

Abstract: This phonological and grammatical sketch offers a brief description of the phonology, morphology, and syntax of Surgujia, an under-documented Eastern Central Indo-Aryan language spoken by more than 1.5 million people in Northern Chhattisgarh, Central India. The analysis is based on two wordlists (1600 and 1450 lexemes), sixteen narrative texts and 350 elicited phrases collected between 2015 and 2018 from 10 Surgujia speakers. The segmental phonology section describes Surgujia’s 33 consonants, 6 simple vowels and 4 diphthongs, and the syllable and word structure. This analysis is compared to the segmental phonology of Chhattisgarhi. Surgujia’s phonology is expanded with description of morphophonological rules: epenthesis, vowel harmony, consonant deletion, and metathesis. Finally, corresponding phonemes are mapped to Surgujia orthography. Description of word formation includes compounding, derivation, echo formation, and reduplication. Endocentric, exocentric, and coordinate compounding are explained and derivational morphology touches on affixation in masculine-feminine, diminutive, adjectival, and other categories. Nominal forms and categories present noun marking as well as a description of determiners, pronouns, case, and postpositions. Articles, demonstratives, quantifiers, numerals, classifiers, and pronouns are covered. Verbal forms and categories elaborate finite and non-finite verbs and present compound verbal forms. Causative and copular constructions are given. Verb charts present tense, aspect, and subject agreement rules. Syntactic description includes four main sections: phrases, simple sentences and their modification, speech acts, and clause structure. Basic word order is followed by a description of intransitive, transitive, ditransitive sentences. Simple sentences and modifications, speech acts, and clause types are also described. Suggestions for further study are given throughout the text. This includes questions about Surgujia’s stress pattern and intonation, affixation, definiteness, verbal suffix synthesis, and word scrambling. Some effort has been made to comment on similar and contrastive features in neighboring languages, especially in the phonology chapter. Three texts used in this analysis are included in the appendix. This phonological and grammatical sketch is only meant to begin the process of describing Surgujia’s distinctive features.

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Address: CHIANG MAI

Email: napat_c@payap.ac.th

Name: Doty, Stephen H.

Role: Advisor

Created: 2018

Modified: 2565-11-08

Issued: 2022-11-08

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CallNumber: TH. 410 S384P 2018

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DegreeName: Master of Arts

Level: Master's Degree

Descipline: Linguistics

Grantor: Payap University

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