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The use of phrasal conjunctions can also be presented in (97a-b).
(97) a. राजा मह)m चउदगो अंचल आ पचह#रगो िजला बनवल) ।
rɑjɑ mʌɦendrʌ cʌudʌɡo ʌncʌl ɑ pʌcɦʌttʌrɡo
rɑjɑ mʌɦendrʌ cʌudʌ-ɡo ʌncʌl ɑ pʌcɦʌttʌr-ɡo
king Mahendra fourteen-CLF zone and seventy-five-CLF
jilɑ bʌnɔlẽ
jilɑ bʌn
district make
'King Mahendra constructed fourteen zones and seventy-five districts.'
(01.052)
b. ओकरा के हमनी भोजपुरी म) कहेम चाहे Zहद-आयO भाषा म) चाहे भारतीय आयO भाषा म) ।
okʌrɑ ke ʌɡʌr ɦʌmni b ̤ ojpuri mẽ kʌɦem
okʌrɑ ke ʌɡʌr ɦʌm-ni b ̤ ojpuri mẽ kʌɦ-em
3.SG.GEN ACC if 1SG.NOM-PL Bhojpuri LOC say-FUT.H
cɑɦe ɦind-ɑryʌ b ̤ ɑsɑ mẽ cɑɦe b ̤ ɑrʌtie ɑryʌ b ̤ ɑsɑ
cɑɦe ɦind-ɑryʌ b ̤ ɑsɑ mẽ cɑɦe b ̤ ɑrʌtie ɑryʌ b ̤ ɑsɑ
or Indo-Aryan language LOC or Indian Aryan language
mẽ
mẽ
LOC
'We can interpret it either in Bhojpuri or in any Indo-Aryan languages.'
(03.102)
c) Subordinators
Clausal or phrasal subordinators are part of the grammatical morphology
attached to particular embedded and/or subordinate clauses, discussed in detail in
Chapter 12. However, some adverbial and relative clause subordinators in Bhojpuri
are presented as in (98a-d).
(98) a. य6द /yʌdi/ or ज6द /jʌdi/ 'if', जब /jʌb/ 'when', यिप /yʌdyʌpi/ or जदिप
/jʌdʌpi/ 'although' among others are the adverbial-clause subordinators.
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b. जौन /jɔn/ 'who', जे /je/ 'that', जहाँ /jʌɦɑ/ 'where' among others are the
relative-clause subordinators.
c. 6क /ki/ 'that', खाितर /kʰɑtir/ 'to' or 'in order to', -ए के /-e ke/ 'to' among others
are the verb-complement subordinators.
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