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kʰʌʈiɑ pʌr bʌiʈʰʌl ɑdmi
kʰʌʈiɑ pʌr bʌiʈʰ-ʌl ɑdmi

cot LOC sit-PP man
'The man who is sitting on the cot.' (Lohar, 2010:84)
i. Demonstrative+relative clause+noun

ऊ बाली उ'जल खेत

u bɑli ubjʌl kʰet
u bɑli ubʌj-ʌl kʰet

dist crops grow-PP farm
'That farm which the crops are growing in'

j. Demonstrative+genitive+modifier+noun
ऊ हमार खुबसुरत बेटी !

u ɦʌmɑr kʰubsurʌt beʈi
u ɦʌm-ɑr kʰubsurʌt beʈi

DIST 1SG-GEN beautiful daughter
'That one, my beautiful daughter!'

Pronouns generally occur alone in noun phrases without modifiers in most of
the languages (Dryer 2007c:151). But in Bhojpuri, constructions in which pronouns

occur with modifiers preceding the head noun as in हमनी भोजपुGरया /ɦʌmni b ̤ ojpuriɑ/
'we Bhojpuri natives', तोहनी लइका लोग /toɦni lʌikɑ loɡ/ 'you boys', ओकनी पहिड़या

/okni pʌɦʌɽiɑ/ 'they, the hill people' are possible. It shows that the constituents within

the noun phrase violate their linear order for pragmatic purposes. This phenomenon is
discussed as follows:
c) Scattered NPs

"The most universal means of binding all NP constituents together is
adjacency, a transparently iconic device that keeps together structurally what belongs

together functionally, however, in languages with more flexible word-order, scattered
NPs are reported to be common" (Givόn 2001b: 13). Bhojpuri holds true in this

regard. Basically, the elements of Bhojpuri NPs tend to occur together, generally, only
after the clause final verb but also scattered, as shown in (5a-d).

(5) a. उहाँका काO एगो भाषण देनी जे के/ ना बुझे सकल ।
uɦɑ ̃ kɑ kɑl̥ eɡo b ̤ ɑsʌn deni je

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