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be-kʌɦ-ʌl kɑm mʌt kʌr
NEG-say-PP work NEG do.IMP

'Don't word disobediently'
d. Preposition before finite verb

भोजपुरी हम चाहेम तइयो ना छुटी ।
b ̤ ojpuri ɦʌm cɑɦem tʌio nɑ cʰuʈi

b ̤ ojpuri ɦʌm cɑɦ-em tʌ-io nɑ cʰuʈ-i
Bhojpuri 1SG want-FUT.H COND-EMPH NEG leave-3SG.FUT

'Bhojpuri won't be apart from me even I whish' (03.049)
e. Negative copula नइख /nʌikʰ/

ऊ हमर चाहना भी नइखे ।

u ɦʌmʌr cɑɦnɑ b ̤ i nʌikʰe
u ɦʌm-ʌr cɑɦnɑ b ̤ i nʌikʰ-e

DIST 1SG-GEN will also not to be-3.PRES
'It is not my choice, too.' (03.049)
Going through examples in (47a-e), we observe that the negative marker

prefix attatched with nouns, adjectives and infinitive/perfective nonfinite verbs derive

only adjectives. Likewise, ना /nɑ/ and मत /mʌt/ are the negative prepositions before
verbs. Moreover, नइख /nʌikʰ/ 'be.NEG.PRES' is the present negative copula primarily

found in Bhojpuri.

9.3 Summary
In this chapter, we looked at noun phrases and the syntactic use of word order
in Bhojpuri. Noun phrases in Bhojpuri are categorized as simplex and complex. A

noun phrase can consist of a single noun or pronoun with other elements such as
demonstrative, genitive, number, adjective and relative clause, noun, compound noun

and pronoun in Bhojpuri. Likewise, the number and case marker morphemes are also
the elements of a noun phrase. NP→(Dem)-(Gen)-(Num)-(appositional phrase (AP))-

Head is the common linear order of a noun phrase. Besides, there is also availability
of scattered NPs in Bhojpuri. The complex noun phrases are found in Bhojpuri to

have been juxtaposed or conjoined by conjunction, joint participants in a single event,
in relative order of near>far, adult>young, male>female, singular>plural,
animate>inanimate, large>small, agent>patient and positive>negative but most of

them are also found in reverse order in Bhojpuri.

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