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d ̤ ʌnyʌbɑd de-we-ke cɑɦ-ʌt bɑni
thank give-PUR-SEQ want-IMPF be.PRES.H

'Especially the Director of Radio Nepal who listens to the programme, I
want to thank him too.' (03.414)
As exemplified in (5a-d), एगो भाषण /eɡo b ̤ ɑsʌn/ 'a lecture', जे /je/ 'that' and केT ना

/keɦu nɑ/ 'no one' in (5a); बेटा /beʈɑ/, एगो Pकताब /eɡo kitɑb/ 'a book', जे /je/ 'that' and ऊ

/u/ 'he' in (5b); छोटकु राम /cʰoʈku rɑm/ 'the younger' and िबना कुछ /binɑ kucʰ/ 'nothing'

in (5c); and डाइरेVटर साहेब /ɖɑirekʈʌr sɑɦeb/ 'the director sir', जे /je/ 'that', एह काय)*म

/eɦ kɑryʌkrʌm/ 'this program', उनका के /unkɑ ke/ 'to him' and हम /ɦʌm/ 'I' are all NPs

scattered in the respective clauses.
9.1.2 Complex noun phrases

"Above and beyond the presence of multiple modifiers, the most conspicuous
sources of syntactic complexity in the NP are due to the importation, by whatever
means, of clause-level syntactic organization into the noun phrase" (Givón 2001b:15).

The complex noun phrases are used to further specify the description of referents, i.e.,
of subjects or objects either as first introduction or subsequent reintroduction into the

discourse. There are three structures most commonly responsible for such complexity:
relative clauses, NP conjunctions and nominalizations. As relative clauses in Bhojpuri

are discused in the subsequent chapters (Ch. 12, 13 and 14), we have dealt here with
the other two in order.

(a) Noun phrase conjunction
Givón (2011:209-10) presents noun-phrase conjunction "as one of the
mechanisms that creates larger noun phrases without involving modifiers, thus

without involving the asymmetrical head-modifier relation, obtained by putting two
noun-phrases, often just two nouns, in a conjunction that involves a relatively

symmetrical configuration, presumably answering to the two logical rules: ordering
reversibility and implication of two propositions".

The noun phrases in Bhojpuri are either juxtaposed or conjoined by आ /ɑ/ 'and'

and भा /b ̤ ɑ/ or चाहे /chɑɦe/ or Pक /ki/ 'or'. Generally the conjoined nominal NPs take
the finite verb in third person, as shown in (6a-c).

(6) a. माई आ रहल बाड़ी ।

mɑi ɑ rʌɦʌl bɑɽi

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