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'Having not allowed to study, Mangru returned home.' (13.243)
b. हम सारा रात रोके िबतइनी ।
ɦʌm sɑrɑ rɑt roke bitʌini
ɦʌm sɑrɑ rɑt ro-ke bit-ɑ-ini
1SG.NOM whole night weep-SEQ pass-CAUS-PST.H
'I passed the whole night weeping.' (13.244)
13.3.2 Simultaneous participial clause
Like Chantyal (Noonan, 1999), Bhujel (Regmi, 2007) and Maithili
(Yadava, 2005), Bhojpuri also employs simultaneous participial clause to express
an activity that is simultaneous with, or temporally overlapping with, another
activity expressed by the matrix predicate, as shown in (63a-b):
(63) a. ऊ देवास गावत घरे आइल ।
u dewɑs ɡɑwʌt ɡ ̈ ʌre ɑil
u dewɑs ɡɑ-ʌt ɡ ̈ ʌr-e ɑ-il
3SG prayers sing-SIM house-LOC come-3SG.PST
'He came home while chanting prayer.' (13.245)
b. लइका िबzकु ट खात इzकू ल गइल ।
lʌikɑ biskuʈ kʰɑt iskul ɡʌil
lʌikɑ biskuʈ kʰɑ-ʌt iskul jɑ-il
boy biscuit eat-SIM school go-3SG.PST
'The boy went to school eating biscuits.' (13.246)
Bhojpuri also employs double simultaneity except the matrix predicate,
especially to mark a particular behavior, as shown in (64):
(64) तू त खऱवा खात पिनआ िपअत चलेलऽ ।
tu tʌ kʰʌr ̥ wɑ kʰɑt pʌniɑ piʌt cʌlelʌ
tu tʌ kʰʌr ̥ -wɑ kʰɑ-ʌt pɑni-ɑ pi-ʌt cʌl-elʌ
2SG COND grass-SPEC eat-SIM water-SPEC drink-SIM walk-2.PRES.MH
'You walk very slowly.' (13.247)
(Literally: 'You walk eating grass and drinking water.')
Sometimes, simultaneous converbal suffix adds a further clitic -ए /-e/ as
emphatic marker to emphasize the situation, as shown in (65):
(65) लइकb रोअते चल आइल ।
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