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cʌl ɦʌm okʰʌri mẽ muɽi lʌɡɑwʌtɑni ɑ tu
cʌl ɦʌm okʰʌri mẽ muɽi lʌɡɑ-ʌt bɑni ɑ tu

walk 1SG mortar LOC head set-SIM be.PRES.H and 2SG

̈
ɖẽki cʌlɑke sʌj de
̈
ɖẽki cʌl-ɑ-ke sʌj de
pounding appliance walk-CAUS-SEQ trim give.IMP

'I'm placing my head in the mortar and trim it by pounding.' (05.052)
13.6 Conjoined clauses
Languages often have morphosyntactic means of linking two clauses of equal

grammatical status, i.e. coordination, distinct from subordination in that in
subordination, one clause is grammatically dependent on the other (Payne 1997:336).

But Givón (2001b:348) rejects the traditional independent-dependent
dichotomy between the subordinate and co-ordinate clauses, arguing that the

dichotomy is unrealistic both functionally and syntactically. It further postulates
"while the different types of conjoined clauses may vary among themselves in the

degree and type of their connectivity, their pragmatic links tend to be local (narrow
scoped). In this, they contrast with pre-posed adverbials but resemble the post-posed
ones." Haspelmath (2007: 34) suggests the term 'coordination' as syntactic

constructions in which two or more units of the same type are combined into a larger
unit and still have the same semantic relations with other surrounding elements.

The coordinator, which is further subcategoraized as conjunction, disjunction,
adversative coordination and causal coordination; described in Bhojpuri as follows:

13.6.1 Conjunctive coordinator (conjunction)
As attested in Chitoniya Tharu (Paudyal :2013:346-8), Maithili (Yadav

2014:148-55), Hindi (Koul 2008:241-44) and Nepali (Upadhyay 2010:68 and
Adhikari 2016:117), Bhojpuri has two ways of expressions of conjunctions: suffix -iँ

/ɦũ/, -हो /-ɦo/, -ओ /-o/ 'too/also', and particle आ /ɑ/ 'and', as shown in (86a-d).

(86) a. ओह बीच म2 हम2ँ jzत रहO, अपन2ँ लोग के jzतता रहल होई ।
oɦ bic mẽ ɦʌmɦũ byʌst rʌɦĩ ʌpnʌɦũ loɡ

oɦ bic mẽ ɦʌm-ɦũ byʌst rʌɦ-ĩ ʌpne-ɦũ loɡ
DIST middle LOC 1SG-EMPH busy live-PST.H 2SG.H-EMPH PL

ke byʌstʌtɑ rʌɦʌl ɦoi

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