ABSTRACT
Santali is a Munda language with a suffixing, agglutinating, and a basic SOV structure. The most notable characteristic of the language is the weak distinction between noun and verb, the addition of verbal suffixes that will turn any lexeme into a verb, and case-markers, enclitic definitives, and number markers into a noun. In the present study, therefore, the word classes have been postulated on the basis of morpho-syntactic criteria rather than lexical criteria alone.
