I-VI -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter one: A century of Maithili grammatical tradition -- Chapter two: Sound system and script -- Chapter three: The noun and the noun phrase -- Chapter four: The pronoun -- Chapter five: Adjectives, modifiers, determiners, and numerals -- Chapter six: The verb and the verb phrase -- Chapter seven: Adverbs, postpositions, clitics, interjections, and particles -- Chapter eight: Sentence types -- Chapter nine: The syntax and semantics of simple and complex sentences -- Notes -- References -- Name index -- Language index -- Subject index