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b. Adjective to verb
सोिझया /'soȷ ̈ iya/ 'innocent' /soȷ ̈ i'yɑ/ 'straighten', बुढ़ा /'buɽ ̊ ɑ/ 'old'
/bu'ɽ ̊ ɑ/ 'be old', पछुआ /'pʌcʰuɑ/ 'backward' /pʌcʰu'ɑ/ 'follow', ल67ढ़या
/'lẽɽ ̊ iyɑ/ 'mentally poor' /lẽɽ ̊ i'yɑ/ 'disturb to be alone', क0रआ /'kʌriɑ/
'black' /kʌi'ɑ/ 'blacken'.
c. Adverb to verb
तिहया /'tʌɦiyɑ/ 'that day' /tʌɦi'yɑ/ 'press', िनयरा /'niyʌrɑ/ 'near'
/niyʌ'rɑ/ 'reach closer', बहरा /'bʌɦʌrɑ/ 'outside' /bʌɦʌ'rɑ/ 'pull out', उपरा
/'upʌrɑ/ 'surfacely' /upʌ'rɑ/ 'search secretly'.
The verbs derivated by the stress-shift have been observed as the bare-stem
form serving as the most direct, least polite, imperative speech-act as Givón
(2001b:305) mentions, but with the last stem-vowel lowered.
5.7 Summary
We have dealt with morphophonology of Bhojpuri in this chapter. Bhojpuri
shows up a few morphophonological processes such as deletion, raising, assimilation,
epenthesis and coalescence. Under process of deletion in Bhojpuri morphophonology,
a vowel or a consonant or a syllable from either of a segment of the preceding and
succeeding ones is deleted. A vowel in either of the segment is raised in the process of
raising. Likewise assimilation includes progressive vs. regressive resulting in
plosivization, devoicing, voicing, apico-alveolarization, retroflexion, affrication and
deaspiration in either of the preceding or succeeding segments; contiguous vs. non-
contiguous resulting in mid-point fixation, falling of vowels, merger of syllables and
gliding. Variation in nasal along with partial vs. complete assimilation has been
discussed resulting in intervocalic voicing, palatalization and labialization, nasal
assimilation. Likewise, stress in Bhojpuri is found phonemic.
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