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There is a parallel strategy to use an agentive verbal noun and हो /ɦo/ or रह

/rʌɦ/ 'become' meant 'to be an onlookers or goers', etc. But with these constructions, it
is not always clear which event is backgrounded and which one is foregrounded, as
shown in (35a-b).

(35) a. जब ऊ दाm िपअत घरे गइल, ओकर बेटा देखिनहार रहे ।

jʌb u dɑru piʌt ɡ ̈ ʌre ɡʌil okʌr beʈɑ
jʌb u dɑru pi-ʌt ɡ ̈ ʌr-e jɑ-il u-ʌr beʈɑ

when 3SG wine drink-SIM house-LOC go-3SG.PST 3SG-GEN son

dekʰniɦɑr rʌɦe
dekʰ-niɦɑr rʌɦ-e
see-doer live-3.PST

'When he came home drinking wine, his son was the witness.' (13.055)
b. जब लोग लौटिनहार भइल, त मेघ बरसे लागल ।

jʌb loɡ lɔʈniɦɑr b ̤ ʌil tʌ meɡ ̈
jʌb loɡ lɔʈ-niɦɑr b ̤ ʌ-il tʌ meɡ ̈

when people return-doer become-3.PST cond rain
bʌrse lɑɡʌl

bʌrʌs-e lɑɡ-ʌl
rain-SIM continue-3SG.PST
'When the people got ready to return, It started raining.' (13.056)

e) Point coincidence
The point coincidence adverbial clause encodes the semantics that two

events/states occur almost at the same time; however, there is a narrow interval
between them. Givόn (2001b:330) exemplifies point coincidence with an English

example 'when he opened the door, she shot him.' In Bhojpuri, this situation is
encoded as the temporal complementizer !क /ki/ and जब /jʌb/ 'when'-clause as initial

one, as shown in (36a-b):

(36) a. ... जब लइका नीचा लभल !क बु!ढ़आ ओके पकड़के धोकरी म2 कस लेली ... ।
jʌb lʌikɑ nicɑ lʌb ̤ ʌl ki buɽ ̊ iɑ oke

jʌb lʌikɑ nicɑ lʌb ̤ -ʌl ki buɽ ̊ -i-ɑ u-e
when boy down bow-3SG.PST COMP old-F-DET 3SG-ACC

pʌkʌɽke d ̤ okʌri mẽ kʌs leli

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