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(ix) Sentence with clausal object complement
In a sentence with a clausal object complement, the order of the constituents

will be subject-indirect object-complement-verb as in (35):
(35) Subject-indirect object-complement-verb (S-IO-COMP-V)

हम राजु के हँसा देनी ।
[ɦʌm] SBJ [rɑju ke] IO [ɦʌ ̃ sɑ] CMP [deni] VRB

ɦʌm rɑju ke ɦʌ ̃ s-ɑ de-ni
1SG Raju DAT laugh-CAUS give-PST.H

'I made Raju laugh.'
On the basis of examples (27-35), some properties of word order in Bhojpuri

have come on the surface. In a single argument clause the word order is simply S-V.
Likewise, S is the intial and V is the final constituents of all the simple clauses. In
between the two, O comes to be in the middle in transitive clause. Besides, O also

categorized as DO and IO along with Pred (predicates) and Comp (complements), all
constituents simply fall between S and V, already presented.

b) Word order in complex clauses
Word order in complex ('marked') clauses is a bit flexible or variant in

comparision with the simple ones as follows:
(i) Variant order for verbal complements

The unmarked position of the verbal complement is between the subject and
verb; however, it may be shifted to the clause final position, as in (36).
(36) Subject-verb-complement

हमरो इsछा भइल Pक हम`ँ कु छ िलखj-पढ़j ।

[ɦʌmro iccʰɑ] SBJ [b ̤ ʌil] VRB [ki ɦʌmɦũ kucʰ
ɦʌm-ʌr-o iccʰɑ b ̤ ʌ-il ki ɦʌm-ɦũ kucʰ
1SG-GEN-EMPH desire become-3SG.PST COMP 1SG-EMPH something

likʰĩ pʌɽ ̊ ĩ] CMP
likʰ-ĩ pʌɽ ̊ -ĩ
write-OPT read-OPT
'I also wished I should write and recite something.' (04.022)

(ii) (Constrastive) topicalization/L-dislocation
The object of a transitive clause may be topicalized/L-dislocated to create a

contrastive situation, as in (37).

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