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Relative औरत जौन हम देखनी /ɔrʌt jɔn ɦʌm 'a woman that I 06.034
clause dekʰ-ni/ saw'

Adjective बड़का गाँव /bʌɽ-kɑ ɡɑo/ 'big village' 09.543
̃
Noun संिवधान /sʌmbid ̤ ɑn/ 'constitution' 01.008

Compound िव>ाथ? समाज /bidyɑrtʰi sʌmɑj/ 'Students' Society' 01.006
noun

Pronoun हम /ɦʌm/ 'I' 13.034

All the NP elements, except the head noun, shown in Table 9.1 are optional in
Bhojpuri. Givón (2001b:3) observes that the noun-headed NPs are relatively rare in

natural communication, where the most common nominal referent is anaphoric, so are
coded as a pronoun or zero.

Apart from the lexical elements of the noun phrases presented in Table 9.1,
Bhojpuri noun phrases may also contain grammatical morphemes. They are presented
in Table 9.2.

Table 9.2 Grammatical morphemes modifying a noun phrase
Element Morpheme Example Gloss Reference

Number -अन /-ʌn/, लइकन /lʌikʌn/ [lʌikɑ-ʌn] 'children' 03.255
marker लोग /loɡ/ Bोता लोग /srotɑ loɡ/ 'listeners' 03.386

सब /sʌb/ इकाई सब /ikɑi sʌb/ 'units' 02.132

Case -ए /-e/ ओके /oke/ [u-e] 'him/her' 13.029

markers हाँथे /ɦɑtʰ-e/ 'with hand' Thakur
̃
(2013:80)
खेते /kʰet-e/ 'in the farm' 13.005

-आर /-ɑr/ हमार /ɦʌm-ɑr/ 'my/mine' 02.038

के /ke/ लइका के /lʌikɑ ke/ 'to the boy' 05.010

नेपाल के /nepɑl ke/ 'of Nepal' 01.008

से /se/ नीित से /niti se/ 'through policy' 01.046

अपने से /ʌpne se/ 'to you' 01.087

खेती से /kʰeti se/ 'from farming' 02.011
खाितर भाषा खाितर /b ̤ ɑsɑ 'for language' 03.036

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