Seven Grammars of the Dialects and Subdialects of the Biharí Language: Spoken in the Province of Bihar, in the Eastern Portion of the North Western ... Bhojpúrí Dialect, of Sháhabád, Sáran

by George Abraham Grierson

Excerpt from Seven Grammars of the Dialects and Subdialects of the Biharí Spoken in the Province of Bihar, in the Eastern Portion of the North Western Provinces, and in the Northern Portion of the Central Provinces; Bhojpúrí Dialect, of Sháhabád, Sáran, Champáran, North Muzaffarpur and the Eastern Portion of the N. W. P There are also special forms for the instrumental and locative Singular, for the formation of which see 5 6. Except those for the genitive, they can also be used with an pronouns. In the genitive singular many pronouns do not take these post-positions, but have other forms having similar terminations, subject to the same rules. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

122 pages, Hardcover

Published August 25, 2018

About the author

Sir George Abraham Grierson (G.A. Grierson) OM KCIE (7 January 1851 – 9 March 1941) was an Irish linguistic scholar and civil servant who conducted the Linguistic Survey of India (1898–1928), obtaining information on 364 languages and dialects.

He was born in Glenageary, County Dublin. His father and grandfather (George Grierson) were well-known Dublin printers and publishers.

He was educated at St. Bees School, Cumberland and Trinity College, Dublin, where he was a student of mathematics. Grierson qualified for the Indian Civil Service in 1871 with very good results. He also won prizes for Sanskrit and Hindustani in Trinity during his two probationary years spent in Dublin. In India, he reached the Bengal Presidency in 1873. He was posted to Bankipore in Bihar. He would eventually become Magistrate and Collector at Patna and later, Opium Agent for Bihar. In 1898 he was appointed Superintendent of the newly formed Linguistic Survey of India and moved to England "for convenience of consulting European libraries and scholars". By the time Grierson retired from the Indian Civil Service in 1903, most of the data had come in. He spent the following thirty years editing the enormous amount of material gathered.

Grierson published scholarly works throughout his career: on the dialects and peasant life of Bihar, on Hindi literature, on bhakti, and on linguistics.

He died in Camberley, Surrey, England.