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oisʌn kɛ-ʌn-ɡo kɑryʌkrʌm mẽ ɦʌm-ni du-nu
like that many-PL-CLF programme LOC 1SG-PL two-EMPH

jʌne ke reɖio nepɑl se bɑɦʌro b ̤ ẽʈ b ̤ ʌil
jʌn-e ke reɖio nepɑl se bɑɦʌr-o b ̤ ẽʈ b ̤ ʌ-il

people-EMPH GEN Radio Nepal abl out-EMPH meet become-PP

bɑ
bɑ
be.3SG.PRES
'We both have met at different programmes of such kinds even outside

Radio Nepal.' (03.325)
b. राधा के मोहन से Rेम हो गइल ।

rɑd ̤ ɑ ke moɦʌn se prem ɦo ɡʌil

rɑd ̤ ɑ ke moɦʌn se prem ɦo jɑ-il
Radha ACC Mohan DAT love be go-3SG.PST
'Radha fell in love with Mohan.' (13.036)

c) Conjunct verbs with दे /de-/ 'give' and other verbalizers

Except कर /kʌr-/ and हो /ɦo-/ conjuncts, दे /de-/ 'give' conjuncts are found in

Bhojpuri in equivalence. Gambhir (1993:78-9) says it is not so obvious when DO
comes to verbalizers other than BE/BECOME and it does not contribute to any larger
extent to semantics to the complexes as it stands with BE/BECOME verbalizers in the

Indo-Aryan languages, whereas, Masica (1993:157) phrases it "shading off" through
GIVE and TAKE into individual combinations of certaing verbs and nonverbal

elements of mostly idiomatic character.
In Bhojpuri, कर /kʌr-/ and हो /ɦo-/ are relevant for conjuncts with दे /de-/ 'give'

in many ways. As alredy noted, दे /de-/ has already been a simple verb rather

polysemous and as such is associated with a few different valence patterns, something
that blurs the picture. A number of दे /de-/ conjuncts in Bhojpuri can be noted as मार दे

/mɑr de/ 'kill', देखाई दे /dekʰɑi de/ 'appear/notice', छोड़ दे /cʰoɽ de/ 'leave', uयान दे /d ̤ yɑn
de/ 'pay attention to', कर दे /kʌr de/ 'do', दान दे /dɑn de/ 'donate', फार दे /pʰɑr de/ 'tear',

vाप दे /srɑp de/ 'curse', जोड़ दे /joɽ de/ 'add/stitch' दे दे /de de/ 'give' and so on.

As Liljegren (2008:295) has examined, दे /de-/ also comes to be bleached,

often no exact meaning can be assigned to the host element semantically and so the

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