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e) Pseudo-cleft/emphatic
To focus a particular constituent, the object may be fronted to the beginning to

yield object-verb-subject-copula order, as in (40).
(40) Pseudo-cleft/emphatic (O-V-S-COP)

अन िजआन करेवाला कुछ लोग रहे ।
[ʌn] DO [jiɑn kʌrewɑlɑ] VRB [kucʰ loɡ] SBJ [rʌɦe] COP

ʌn jiɑn kʌr-e-wɑlɑ kucʰ loɡ rʌɦ-e
food spoil do-PUR-owner some people live-3.PST

'There were some people who spoilt food.' (02.044)
If the verb is infinite and a copula is in the clause final position, O and V both

precede S as, shown in (40).
9.2.2 Order of the constituents in phrases
The order of constituents in different types of phrases is discussed as follows:

a) Constituent order in the noun phrase
Constituents in Bhojpuri noun phrases have already been discussed in the

Section 9.1.
b) Constituent order in the adjectival phrase

In Bhojpuri, the adjectival phrases have some internal complexity, as
mentioned in Hindi (Koul 2008:173) and Nepali (Adhikari 2016:317-8). Thus, the

constituents in an adjectival phrase have some sort of orders. We discuss the order of
constituents in the adjectival phrase as follows:
(i) Order of degree word and adjective

The words like ब`त /bʌɦut/ 'very', अिधक /ʌd ̤ ik/ 'more', and तिनका /tʌnikɑ/ 'a

bit' are the degree words in Bhojpuri, traditionally called adverbs that indicate the
degree of the adjectives. Dryer (2003:43) notes that both orders, i.e., either DEG-ADJ
or ADJ-DEG order is attested among Tibeto-Burman languages where the DEG-ADJ is

dominating. But Bhojpuri, an Indo-Aryan sov language, has the regular order of DEG-
ADJ, as in (41a-b).

(41) a. ई एगो ब`त गलत मानिसकता के उपज ह ।

i eɡo [bʌɦut] DW [ɡʌlʌt] ADJ mɑnsiktɑ ke upʌj
i ek-ɡo bʌɦut ɡʌlʌt mɑnsiktɑ ke upʌj

PROX one-CLF very bad mentality GEN product

ɦʌ

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