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State of living
The group of adjectives of state of living describe various states of animate

beings as shown in (29a-d).
(29) a. Age: जवान /jʌwɑn/ 'young'—बूढ़ /buɽ ̊ / 'old', नया /nʌyɑ/ 'new'—पुरान /purɑn/ 'old'

b. Life: िजअत /jiʌt/ or Zजदा /jindɑ/ 'alive'—मरल /mʌrʌl/ or मूदाO /murdɑ/ 'dead'

c. Health: तंदु>Xत /tʌndurust/ or XवXथ /swʌstʰ/ 'healthy'—बेमार /bemɑr/ 'sick',

रोगी /roɡi/ 'ill'—िनरोग /niroɡ/ 'well'

d. Business: WXत /byʌst/ 'busy'—िनक\मा /nikʌmmɑ/ 'idle', रोजगार /rojɡɑr/
'employed'—बेरोजगार /berojɡɑr/ 'unemployed'

Position

This group of adjectives appeared in antonym pairs code distance and
direction as shown in (30a-b).

(30) a. Distance: लग /lʌɡ/ or िनअरा /niʌrɑ/ 'near'—पाला /pɑlɑ/ or लमहारा

/lʌmɦɑrɑ/ or दूर /dur/ 'far'
b. Direction: उ#र /uttʌr/ 'north'—दि^खन /dʌkkʰin/ 'south', पु>ब /purub/

̃
'east'—पिछम /pʌcʰim/ 'west', दिहना /dʌɦinɑ/ 'right'—बायाँ /bɑyɑ/ 'left'
b) Syntactic properties of the adjectives
Bhojpuri adjectives tend to occur as predicate in copular clauses, as modifiers

in the Noun Phrase and as verbal complements.
(i) Predicate adjective

(31) a. एह घर के खाaी बCरआर बा ।
eɦ ɡ ̈ ʌr ke kʰɑm ̥ i bʌriɑr bɑ

eɦ ɡ ̈ ʌr ke kʰɑm ̥ i bʌriɑr bɑ
prox house GEN wooden pillar strong be.3SG.PRES

'The wooden pillar of this house is strong.' (09.165)
b. ई दूध गाऱ बा ।

i dud ̤ ɡɑr ̥ bɑ

i dud ̤ ɡɑr ̥ bɑ
3SG.DEM.PROX milk thick be.3SG.PRES
'This milk is thick.' (09.158)

In example (31a-b), बCरआर /bʌriɑr/ 'strong' in (31a) and गाऱ /ɡɑr ̥ / 'thick' in

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