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i) Intermediacy
Intermediacy in the temporal adverbial clauses denotes an action or state

between the other two functions or states, as shown in (41a-b):
(41) a. िचतवा के गाँव म2 आवे से लेके जाए तक ले केi रात म2 चैन से ना सुतल ।

citwɑ ke ɡɑ ̃ o mẽ ɑwe se leke jɑe tʌk
citwɑ ke ɡɑ ̃ o mẽ ɑ-we se le-ke jɑ-e tʌk

leopard GEN village LOC come-SEQ source till-SEQ go-SEQ till

le keɦu rɑt mẽ cɛn se nɑ sutʌl
le keɦu rɑt mẽ cɛn se nɑ sut-ʌl
till anybody night LOC peace with NEG sleep-3SG.PST

'Between entrance of the leopard in the village and its fleeing away, nobody
slept peacefully at night.' (13.234)
b. जब मङM आपन काम ओरा लेवे आ ढdढ़ाई अिभन शुMओ ना कइले रहे, ओही बेरा

मािलक के देखे आवेके चाहO ।
̈
jʌb mʌŋru ɑpʌn kɑm orɑ lewe ɑ ɖõɽ ̊ ɑi ʌb ̤ in
̈
jʌb mʌŋru ɑpʌn kɑm orɑ le-e ɑ ɖõɽ ̊ ɑi ʌb
when Mangru GEN work empty take-SEQ and Dhondhai now

suruo nɑ kʌile rʌɦe oɦi berɑ mɑlik ke
suru-o nɑ kʌr-ile rʌɦ-e o-ɦi berɑ mɑlik ke

start-EMPH NEG do-SEQ live-SEQ DIST-EMPH time master GEN

dekʰe ɑweke cɑɦĩ
dekʰ-e ɑ-we-ke cɑɦ-ĩ
see-PUR come-PUR-OBL want-OPT

'When Mangru has accomplished and Dhondhai has not yet started, that's
when master should come to inspect.' (13.235)

13.2.2 Conditional adverbial clauses
As many languages have the case (Thompson and Longacre 1985:193), Bhojpuri
also has no absolute distinction between temporality and conditionality. Although there

are some distinct morphological or complemental markings available to signal
conditionality, there might be some overlap in coding between clauses with an implied

temporality, or to some extent causality, vis-à-vis clauses with conditional semantics.
Givón (2001b:330) classifies conditional adverbial clauses as irrealis and counter-fact.
As observed in its close neighbours Chitoniya Tharu (Paudyal 2013:371), Maithili

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