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jeb mẽ
pocket LOC

'How he could be lagging behind! He also said rubbing his eyes, 'I've also
kept hot spices in my pocket.'' (08.019)

t. अंत म1 *कसान कहलख, ‘जे दुःख छोड़नी गउरा घाट, से दुःख त लागले बा !’
ʌnt mẽ kisɑn kʌɦlʌkʰ je dukʰ cʰoɽni

ʌnt mẽ kisɑn kʌɦ-ʌl-ʌkʰ je dukʰ cʰoɽ-ni
end LOC peasant say-PRF-3.PST 3SG.COND misery leave-PST.H

ɡʌurɑ ɡ ̈ ɑʈ se dukʰ tʌ lɑɡle bɑ
ɡʌurɑ ɡ ̈ ɑʈ se dukʰ tʌ lɑɡ-ʌl-e bɑ

Gaura bank 3SG.COND misery COND continue-INF-EMPH be.3SG.PRES
'At last, the peasant said, 'What we planned, all in vain.'' (08.20)
The text presented in examples (28a-t) is a folk-tale popular in Bhojpuri speech

community. The markers of topic (referential) continuity are italicized in the text both in
Devanagari and IPA. They have been analyzed as follows:

a) he third person singular anaphoric pronouns ऊ /u/ 'he' in nominative form in

(28b, e), ओकरा /okʌrɑ/ 'his' in genitive form in (28c), अपना /ʌpnɑ/ 'his' in
genitive form in (28e) refer to *कसान /kisɑn/ 'peasant' in (28a). Likewise, ओकरा

/okʌrɑ/ 'her' in accusative form in (28m) refers to बड़कb बेटी /bʌɽki beʈi/ in (28l),
ऊ /u/ 'she' in nominative form in (28o) refers to मेहराh /meɦrɑru/ 'wife' in

(28m) and उहो /uɦo/ 'he too' in nominative form with inclusive emphatic

marker in (28s) refers to कोरपYछुआ /korpõcʰuɑ/ 'the youngest one' in (28r).

b) The proximant demonstrative हई /ɦʌi/ 'this' in (28s) codes both continuity and

specifity of the referent.
c) The clauses with non-finite participial form of the verb marked by sequential

suffix -आ /-ɑ/ , i.e., सुतला के बाद /sutlɑ ke bad/ 'after having slept' in (28g), by
sequential suffix -के /-ke/, i.e., मु धइके /mu d ̤ ʌike/ 'having caught the head' and

by simultaneous suffix -अत /-ʌt/, i.e., िमलते /milte/ 'being found' in (28k), आँख

̃
िमजते /ɑkʰ mijte/ 'rubbing eyes' in (28l, s) are found in Bhojpuri. Both types the
participial clauses occur as 'middle clauses' coreferential which the subject of
the finite clause is coreferential with.

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