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'Where there is life, there is death. (09.510)
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The NP /jʌɦɑ jiʌn/ 'where there is life' is in the locative case and is relativized.
Table 13.1 presents relatives and correlatives with consecutive interrogative
counterparts in Bhojpuri in a parallel way.

Table 13.1 Interrogatives, relatives and correlatives in Bhojpuri
Interrogatives Relatives Correlatives
के /ke/, कौन /kɔn/, केकनी जे /je/, जौन /jɔn/, जेकनी से /se/, सेकनी /sekni/, तौन

/kekni/ 'who' /jekni/ /tɔn/, तेकनी /tekni/ ऊ /u/,

ओकनी /okni/

कथी /kʌtʰi/ 'what' जथी /jʌtʰi/ तथी /tʌtʰi/

केकर /kekʌr/, !कनकर जेकर /jekʌr/, िजनकर सेकर /sekʌr/, तेकर /tekʌr/,

/kinkʌr/ 'whose' /jinkʌr/ ओकर /okʌr/, उनकर /unkʌr/,

ितनकर /tinkʌr/
कखनी /kʌkʰni/, कखुनी जखनी /jʌkʰni/, जखुनी तखनी /tʌkʰni/, तखुनी

/kʌkʰuni/ 'when' /jʌkʰuni/ /tʌkʰuni/, ओखनी /okʰni/

कहाँ /kʌɦɑ/, कहवाँ जहाँ /jʌɦɑ/, जहवाँ /jʌɦʌwɑ/, तहाँ /tʌɦɑ/, तहवाँ /tʌɦʌwɑ/,
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/kʌɦʌwɑ/, केने /kene/ जेने /jene/ तेने /tene/, उहाँ /uɦɑ/, ओने
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'where' /one/, उहवाँ /uɦʌwɑ/,
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कब /kʌb/, किहआ /kʌɦiɑ/ जब /jʌb/, जिहआ /jʌɦiɑ/ तब /tʌb/, तिहआ /tʌɦiɑ/
'when'
कइसन /kʌisʌn/ 'how' जइसन /jʌisʌn/ तइसन /tʌisʌn/, ओइसन

/oisʌn/

13.5 Clause chaining
The use of clause chaining is one of the more salient features of Bhojpuri
discourse and the feature fits it into the category of chaining languages as Thompson

and Longacre (1985:175-6) and Longacre (1985:238-9) describe. Such clause chains
express sequences of events or actions carried out and consist of one or several non-

final clauses, followed by the final one. Each non-final clause is relating to the one
immediately preceding it and the one following it, but not necessarily to the final

clause. Such circumstance is somewhat intermediate between coordination and
subordination, which Liljegren (2008:310) terms as cosubordinate clause.

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