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(2) Transitive Clause (human patient)
राजा ओके बड़ी सजाय कइलन ।

rɑjɑ oke bʌɽi sʌjɑe kʌilʌn
rɑjɑ oke bʌɽ-i sʌjɑe kʌr-il-ʌn

king 3SG.ACC big-EMPH punishment do-PP-3.PST.MH
'The king punished him/her to the maximum.' (13.035)

In example (2), we see that the pronominal argument ओके /oke/ 'him/her' in

object/patient role is marked by the accusative case -के /-ke/. Thus, the nominal

morphology as coding property follows a consistent nominative pattern in Bhojpuri.
b) Verb agreement
There is a very complex pattern of verb agreement/verb cross-rererencing

indexing person, number, gender, honorificity and direct-inverse relations of the verb
arguments in the complex of verb in Bhojpuri. They are briefly discussed as follows:

(i) Pronominal verb agreement
In a single-argument clause, references of all the three person-arguments are
indexed distinctly in the complex of verb in Bhojpuri, exemplified in (3a-c).

(3) a. ऊ आइल ।

u ɑil
u ɑ-il

3SG.NOM come-3SG.PST
'He came.' (08.010)

b. हम अइनी ।
ɦʌm ʌini

ɦʌm ɑ-ini
1SG.NOM come-PST.H

'I came.'
c. तेँ अइले ।

tẽ ʌile

tẽ ɑ-il-e
2SG.NOM come-PP-2SG.PST
'You came.'

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