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brought :शंसा /prʌsʌnsɑ/ 'praise' in (33d) into focus. Going through the citations, we

also absorve the repeatation of the focus particles in (33b) and (33d).
Moreover, the emphatic particle ही /ɦi/ 'only' comes in Bhojpuri as a suffix of

focus too, as shown in (34a-d):

(34) a. ओही &कताब म" पाठ के जौरे-जौरे रहल ।
oɦi kitɑb mẽ pɑʈʰ ke jɔre jɔre rʌɦʌl

o-ɦi kitɑb mẽ pɑʈʰ ke jɔre jɔre rʌɦ-ʌl
DIST-EMPH book LOC lesson GEN with with live-3SG.PST

'It was distributed with each lesson of the very book.'
b. आदमी का डर त रहलही रहे ।

ɑdmi kɑ ɖʌr tʌ rʌɦlʌɦi rʌɦe
ɑdmi kɑ ɖʌr tʌ rʌɦ-ʌl-ɦi rʌɦ-e

man GEN fear COND live-PP-EMPH live-3.PST
'I had already been afraid. (Lit: Certainly, the man had fear.)' (04.071)

c. त राजनीित खाितर भी समय िनकालही के परी ।
tʌ rɑjniti kʰɑtir b ̤ i sʌmɛ nikɑlɦi ke pʌri

tʌ rɑjniti kʰɑtir b ̤ i sʌmɛ nikɑl-ɦi ke pʌr-i
COND politics for also time extract-EMPH OBL fall-3SG.FUT

'Then, even I have to manage time for politics.' (03.045)
d. ओ म" हमर पिहलही लेख म" रहे :कृित के :कोप ।

o mẽ ɦʌmʌr pʌɦilʌɦi lekʰ mẽ rʌɦe prʌkriti
o mẽ ɦʌm-ʌr pʌɦil-ɦi lekʰ mẽ rʌɦ-e prʌkriti

DIST LOC 1SG-GEN first-EMPH article LOC live-3.PST nature

ke prʌkop
ke prʌkop
GEN calamity

'Among others, there was my own article, the first one, on natural calamity.' (04.079)
In (34a-d), ही /ɦi/ has been suffixed with a demonstrative pronoun ओ /o/ 'that

(DIST)', with an intransitive verb रहल /rʌɦʌl/ 'live' in use of a copua, with a transitive

verb िनकाल /nikɑl/ 'extract' and with and adjective पिहल /pʌɦil/ 'first' respectively.

c) Non-reflexive अपने /ʌpne/ 'self'

The reflexive morpheme अपने /ʌpne/ 'slef' or 'own' is employed in non-

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