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miʈʰɑi je bɑbuji oke deni
miʈʰɑi je bɑbu-ji oɦ-ke de-ni

sweets COMP father-H 3SG-DAT give-PST.H
'The sweets that father gave to him/her...'
d. Dative (indirect object) relative clause

ऊ जेके बाबुजी िमठाई देनी ... ।

u jeke bɑbuji miʈʰɑi deni
u je-ke bɑbu-ji miʈʰɑi de-ni

3SG COMP-DAT father-H sweets give-PST.H
'S/he who father gave sweets to ...'

Examples in (32b-d) exemplify that the same complementizer जे /je/ is
employed to relativize different arguments in Bhojpuri but the difference is that it is

followed by dative/accusative के /ke/ if the IO is ralativised as in (32d).

i) Co-reference in imperatives
Brainard (1997:131) states that "imperatives are constructions in which an argument
of the clause is co-referential with the addressee; thus, the argument can be said to control co-

reference". In Bhojpuri, the co-referential argument may be present in the surface structure
usually as the second person pronoun or it may be absent, as shown in (33a-b):

(33) a. ... समय तू धीरे-धीरे चल ।

sʌmɛ tu d ̤ ire d ̤ ire cʌl
sʌmɛ tu d ̤ ire d ̤ ire cʌl

time 2SG.NOM slowly slowly walk
'O Time, you walk slowly.' (03.388)

b. ओने जो ।
one jo

one jɑ-o
that side go-IMP.NH

'Go there.' (09.432)
In example (33a), the argument तू /tu/ 'you' of the imperative verb चल /cʌl/

'walk' is present in the surface whereas in (33b) the co-referential argument of the
imperative verb जो /jo/ 'go' is covert, however, understandable because the co-

referential argument for the imperative is always the second person pronoun.

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