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In examples (6a-f), the verb agreement with respect to plurality is controlled
by the subjects regardless of transitivity.

(iii) Gender agreement
Bhojpuri has dual gender system, masculine and feminine. As the non-human
nominals are used as masculine in general, the masculinity is used unmarked in

morpheme break of the Bhojpuri finite verbs in this study. Hence, the verb agreement
is analyzed on the gender basis, as shown in (7) and (8a-c).

(7) हम माझ घर म; रहेनी ।

ɦʌm mɑȷ ̈ ɡ ̈ ʌr mẽ rʌɦeni
ɦʌm mɑȷ ̈ ɡ ̈ ʌr mẽ rʌɦ-eni

1SG.NOM middle house LOC live-PRES.H
'I live in the middle room.' (09.112)
The caluse can be presented for the second and third person subjects, both in

masculine and feminine as follows:

(8) a. तू माझ घर म; रहेलऽ ।
tu mɑȷ ̈ ɡ ̈ ʌr mẽ rʌɦelʌ

tu mɑȷ ̈ ɡ ̈ ʌr mẽ rʌɦ-elʌ
2SG.NOM middle house LOC live-2PRES.MH

'You live in the middle room.'
b. तू माझ घर म; रहेलू ।

tu mɑȷ ̈ ɡ ̈ ʌr mẽ rʌɦelu
tu mɑȷ ̈ ɡ ̈ ʌr mẽ rʌɦ-elu

2SG.NOM middle house LOC live-2PRES.F.MH
'You live in the middle room.'

c. ऊ माझ घर म; रहेला ।
u mɑȷ ̈ ɡ ̈ ʌr mẽ rʌɦelɑ

u mɑȷ ̈ ɡ ̈ ʌr mẽ rʌɦ-elɑ
3SG.NOM middle house LOC live-3SG.PRES

'He lives in the middle room.'
d. ऊ माझ घर म; रहेले ।

u mɑȷ ̈ ɡ ̈ ʌr mẽ rʌɦele

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