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The clause in brackets that is placed after the head noun and has "nominally"
modified and restricted the head NP ऊ /u/ 's/he' is a correlative relative clause.

b. Internally headed relative clause
The head noun can also occur within the relative clause in Bhojpuri:

(71) ओ लोग के जेतना भी 0यास बा, सराहनीय बा ।

[o loɡ ke jetnɑ b ̤ i prʌyɑs bɑ]
3SG.DIST PL GEN how much.REL also effort be.3SG.PRES

sʌrɑɦnie bɑ
praiseworthy be.3SG.PRES

'Whatever the efforts they have made are all praiseworthy.' (03.324)
In this example, the head noun 0यास /prʌyɑs/ 'efforts' is within the relative clause.

c. Headless relative clause
We also find some relative clauses in Bhojpuri, which themselves refer to the

noun that they modify. They are considered headless Bhojpuri relative clauses, as
shown in (72)

(72) a. िबहने जे पाछे उठी, तीनगो खाई ।

biɦʌne je pɑcʰe uʈʰi tinɡo kʰɑi
[biɦʌne je pɑcʰe uʈʰ-i] tin-ɡo kʰɑ-i
tomorrow REL lately wake-3SG.FUT three-CLF eat-3SG.FUT

'Whoever wakes up later in the morning will eat the three.' (13.011)
b. जे रही, रहो ।
je rʌɦi rʌɦo

je rʌɦ-i rʌɦ-o
REL live-3SG.FUT live-OPT

'Whoever will live here, let him/her live.' (Lohar, 2010:86)
The clauses िबहने जे पाछे उठी /biɦʌne je pɑcʰe uʈʰi/ 'whoever wakes up later in

the morning' in (72a) and जे रही /je rʌɦi/ 'whoever will live here' in (72b) are the

headless relative clauses.
13.4.3 The mode of expression of the relativized NP

The grammatical role of the relativized noun phrase can be different from the
role of its head noun within the relative clause. Such role can be identified in a natural

language by using different syntactic strategies. In this sub-section, the main

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