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'Now it was finished.' (03.244)
In (42a-d) the verbalizer जा /jɑ/ 'go' is used to function as imperative in (42a)

and as passive marker verbalizer in (42b-d). But it has no separate meaning more than
its hosts. So, it is default grammaticalization (Das 2015:68).

7.3 Summary
In this chapter, we discussed simple verbal clauses and argument structure in

Bhojpuri. Bhojpuri verbs are classified in different groups in terms of clause structure
and argument structure. Non-verbal predicates in Bhojpuri are nominal predicates,

adjectival predicates and locative expressions. Besides these, existentials and
possessives are the other copular or copula-like expressions in Bhojpuri. The

nominal predicates in Bhojpuri sometimes occur without an overt copula in present
tense whereas when a clause predicates the time reference other than the present, the
copula verb is employed. The adjectival and locative copular clauses take the copula ह

/ɦʌ/ or बा /bɑ/ 'be' inflected to encode tense, aspect and participant reference marking
morphemes. The verbal predicates in Bhojpuri may be divided in terms of transitivity.
Basic differences are found in intransitive, transitive and bi-transitive predicates. All

of these types may be divided as encoding indirect objects. Further, modality verbs,
manipulation verbs and perception-cognition-utterance (P-C-U) verbs in Bhojpuri are

characterized by clausal complements of different types. Some predicates in Bhojpuri
exhibit multiple membership due to valance patterns for conjunct verb constructions.

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