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i ek-ɡo kʌʈʰin mʌtʰelɑ bɑ dʌɦinɑ ʈʰɑ ̃ obʌdli
PROX one-CLF difficult topic be.3.PRES right dislocation

'This is a difficult topic, right dislocation.' (12.095)
b. ऊ आसान आदमी नइखे, गाँव के मुिखया ।

u ɑsɑn ɑdmi nʌikʰe ɡɑ ̃ o ke mukʰiɑ

u ɑsɑn ɑdmi nʌikʰ-e ɡɑ ̃ o ke mukʰiɑ
3SG.NOM easy man be.NEG.PRES-3SG village GEN chieften
'He is not an easy man, the village-chieften.' (12.096)

b) Syntactic dimensions
The same three syntactic features that characterize L-dislocation – anaphoric

pronoun, intonation break and neutralized case-marking – also tend to apply to R-
dislocation. They are exemplified in Bhojpuri as follows:

(i) Subject inversion
In subject inversion, the occurrence of NP expressions can be implicitly

projected by the verb in a position following the complete verb phrase, as already
discussed in Chapter 9.1.1.
(ii) VP-internal ordering

As the SVO languages does, Bhojpuri an SOV language has also freedom of
ordering post-verbal positions, which gives rise to a suffling of constructions labelled

as 'heavy NP shift':
(10) a. हम ओ के &कताब देनी ।

ɦʌm o ke kitɑb deni

ɦʌm o ke kitɑb de-ni
1SG.NOM 3SG DAT book give-PST.H
'I gave her a book.' (06.008)

b. हम देनी ओ के &कताब ।

ɦʌm deni o ke kitɑb
ɦʌm de-ni o ke kitɑb
1SG.NOM give-PST.H 3SG DAT book

'I gave her the book.'

c. हम देनी &कताब ओ के ।
ɦʌm deni kitɑb o ke

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