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Chaudharyji' and उहाँके /uɦɑke/ 'he', अन /ʌn/ 'food grains' and ø; and राbता /rɑstɑ/ 'way'

and हे के /ɦe ke/ 'this (accusative)' in (7b-d) respectively. The L-dislocated NP in each
case has a raised intonation, is free of case-marking and an anaphoric pronoun has been

resumed except (7c) though understood functionally as a Bhojpuri specific character.
12.1.4 Right dislocation

a) Functional consideration
Givón (2001b:267) quotes Hyman (1975), Byarushengo et. al. (1976) and

Tenenbaum (1977) to state that R-dislocation is an afterthought or repair device that
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speakers used when they assumed that the referent is highly accessible, thus to be
coded as an anaphoric pronoun; but then, after brief reflection (represented by a pause),
decided that maybe the referent was not quite as accessible, and so was better re-coded
as full NP.

When we turn to right periphery phenomena, the first observation is that there
is considerably less cross-linguistic variation. So, Bhojpuri also exhibits some types

of R-dislocations.
(i) Afterthoughts

As all the languages do, Bhojpuri adds something once a sentence is
completed as a modification, as shown in (8a-c).

(8) a. आ जौन एक आना-दू आना पानी नेपाल के िमलेवाला भइल, त नहर खनाइल, जमीन
बरबाद हो गइल, बाँ'कर पानी नइखे ।

ɑ jɔn ek ɑnɑ du ɑnɑ pɑni

ɑ jɔn ek ɑnɑ du ɑnɑ pɑni
and COMP one sixteenth of a rupee two sixteenth of a rupee water

nepɑl ke milewɑlɑ b ̤ ʌil tʌ nʌɦʌr
nepɑl ke mil-e-wɑlɑ b ̤ ʌ-il tʌ nʌɦʌr

Nepal dat get-PUR-owner become-3SG.PST COND canal

̃
kʰʌnɑil jʌmin bʌrbɑd ɦo ɡʌil bɑkir pɑni
kʰʌn-ɑ-il jʌmin bʌrbɑd ɦo jɑ-il bɑ ̃ kir pɑni
dig-PASS-3.PST land spoil be go-3.PST but water

nʌikʰe

3. Right dislocation is sometimes referred to as afterthought topicalization (Payne, 1997:273).
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