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'stay/live' (Montaut 2017:125) to function as passive in a group of the NIA languages
Bhojpuri belongs to. Besides, it has further been grammaticalized as a finite verb or

infinitive for certain aspects in Bhojpuri, already expalained in Chapter 10 in detail.
7.1.1 Copular clauses with nominal predicates
Predicate noun phrases occur with an overt copula in Bhojpuri as presented in (1a-c).

(1) a. ... ... ऊ राजु ह ।

[u] SBJ [rɑju] PRD ɦʌ
3SG.NOM Raju be.3SG.PRES

' He is Raju.' (07.016)
b. ओकर आबा िश"क बानी ।

[okʌr ɑbɑ] SBJ [sikcʰʌk] PRD bɑni
3SG.GEN.NH father teacher be.PRES.H

'His father is a teacher.' (09.095)

c. आम मौसमी फल ह ।
ɑm mɔsmi pʰʌl ɦʌ

[ɑm] SBJ [mɔsʌm-i pʰʌl] PRD ɦʌ
mango season-ADJ fruit be.3SG.PRES
'The mango is a seasonal fruit.' (09.203)

The unmarked word order is SBJ-PRD in such clauses as shown in (1a-c). But a
reverse word order is also possible with such type of clauses for focus and other

discourse purposes as shown in (2a-c).
(2) a. हमर घर ई ह ।

[ɦʌmʌr ɡ ̈ ʌr] PRD [i] SBJ ɦʌ
1SG.GEN house 3SG.PROX be.3SG.PRES

'My house is this.' (07.002)
b. ई घर हमर ह ।

[i ɡ ̈ ʌr] PRD [ɦʌmʌr] SBJ ɦʌ

3SG.DEM. PROX house 1SG.GEN be.3SG.PRES
'This house is mine.' (09.114)

c. रामदेव उनकर नाम रहे आ अलम1त उनकर उपािध रहे ।
rɑmdeo unkʌr nɑm rʌɦe ɑ ʌlmʌst

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