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the subject or the object of the main clause" (Craig 1977:311). Brainard (1997:122)
notes "equi-NP deletion takes place between a main clause and complement clause:

when an argument in the main clause is co-referential with one in the complement
clause, the co-referential complement argument is deleted". Subject of the main
clause, especially the nominative one in either of the intransitive and transitive

clauses, controls such deletion. Thus, as Maithili (Yadav 2014:88-9), Nepali
(Adhikari 2016:417-9) and Hindi (Koul 2008:188-9) display, the equi-NP deletion (or

co-reference ommission) in complement clauses in Bhojpuri displays a nominative
pattern of control in modality verb like चाह /cɑɦ/ 'want' either with indirect object

complement (28a) or direct object complement (28b).

(28) a. Indirect object complement clause
हम बात करेके चाहतानी जमीन के OवPथापन का बारे म; ।

ɦʌm bɑt kʌreke cɑɦʌtɑni jʌmin ke

ɦʌm i bɑt kʌr-e-ke cɑɦ-ʌt bɑni [ø i jʌmin ke
1SG.NOM matter do-PUR-SEQ want-SIM be.PRES.H land GEN

bewʌstʰɑpʌn kɑ bɑre mẽ
bewʌstʰɑpʌn kɑ bɑre mẽ]
management GEN about LOC

'I want to talk on land management.' (02.025)
b. Direct object complement clause

हमR अपना लिड़का के इPकोल म; भेजेके चाहतानी ।
ɦʌmɦu ʌpnɑ lʌɽikɑ ke iskol mẽ b ̤ ejeke

[ø i ʌpnɑ lʌikɑ ke] iskol mẽ b ̤ ej-e-ke
ɦʌm-ɦu i
1SG.NOM-EMPH GEN son acc school loc send-PUR-SEQ

cɑɦʌtɑni
cɑɦ-ʌt bɑni

want-IMPF be.PRES.H
'I also want to send my boy to school.' (12.041)

In the examples (28a-b), the deleted NPs in the complement clause (enclosed
in the square brackets) are co-referential with the NPs in the respective main clauses.

Regarding the equi-NP deletion, Givόn (1997: 24) asserts that it applies differently to
grammatical relations in different types of complement taking verbs within the same
language. In English modality verbs (want, start, try), the equi-NP is relevant to the

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