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okʌr bɑbɑ ʌɡʌr jiʌt rʌɦtẽ tʌ
u-ʌr bɑbɑ ʌɡʌr ji-ʌt rʌɦ-tẽ tʌ

3SG-GEN grandfaher if live-SIM live-3.IPST.MH COND

ʌb tʌk sɛ bʌris ke b ̤ ʌil rʌɦtẽ
ʌb tʌk sɛ bʌrʌs ke b̤ ʌ-il rʌɦ-tẽ
now till hundred year GEN become-PP live-3.IPST.MH

'If his grand father had been alive, he would have been a hundred years old.' (13.063)
The proposition in the 'if'-clause in (44a-c) is contrary to the fact. In (44a) the
person speaking knows for sure that s/he has no land, in (44b) the speaker clearly

knows neither Madhesh belongs to India nor even the positive answer of his question
makes any difference in the barrage location, similarly in (44c) the speaker knows for

sure that the person referred to is dead; therefore the 'then'-clauses here express what
would have been the case if that had been otherwise, whereas if the verisimilitude value

is pending (Givón, 2001b:332), as is the case with the hypothetical conditionality
already exemplified, the proposition of the 'then'-clause may still be true.

A hypothetical conditionality on the contrary to the counterfactuality in (44) can be
seen in the almost parallel sentence in (45).

(45) ओकर बाबा अगर िजअत बानी त अब सय बरीस के भइल होखेम ।
okʌr bɑbɑ ʌɡʌr jiʌt bɑni tʌ ʌb sɛ

okʌr bɑbɑ ʌɡʌr ji-ʌt bɑni tʌ ʌb sɛ
3SG.GEN.NH grandfaher if live-SIM be.PRES.H cond now hundred

bʌris ke b ̤ ʌil ɦokʰem
bʌrʌs ke b ̤ ʌ-il ɦokʰ-em

year GEN become-PP be-FUT.H
'If his grand father is alive, he will have been a hundred years old.' (13.064)
d) Concessive conditionals

Concessive conditionality is almost identical with hypothetical conditionality
but the conditional clause is infinite in Bhojpuri in participle form with emphasis -ओ

/-o/ followed by postposition पर pʌr 'afterwards', as shown in (46):

(46) हमरा रोकलो पर ऊ ना Mकल ।

ɦʌmrɑ roklo pʌr u nɑ rukʌl

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