An Exploratory Study of Lexico-Syntactic Variations in Sambalpuri and Odia

This paper attempts to identify the changes that are found at the levels of lexis and syntax within Sambalpuri and Odia. This study explores how the structures of syntax and lexicon change from one geographical area to another. In doing so, the study attempts at bringing out the different lexical and syntactic phenomena from the morpho-syntactic perspective. Under the morphology section, it throws light on case endings, pluralisation, classifiers, postpositions, honorifics, emphatic particles and spatio-temporal nouns or frequentative adverbs agglutinating with various categories. Under the section of syntax, the paper gives adequate emphasis on copular verbs, negation and serial verbs.