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le-ɦem
take-3.FUT.H

'The old woman said, "Bow and stretch your hand, I'll also stretch myself
and grab it."' (05.018)
s. लइका जइसही िपSी देवे तिनका नीचा उतरके लभल, बु*ढ़आ ओके पकड़के धोकरी म1

कस लेली आ घरे चल देली ।
lʌikɑ jʌisʌɦi piʈʈʰi dewe tʌnikɑ nicɑ utʌrke

lʌikɑ jʌise-ɦi piʈʈʰi de-we tʌnikɑ nicɑ utʌr-ke
boy as fast as-EMPH cake give-PUR little down descend-SEQ

lʌb ̤ ʌl buɽ ̊ iɑ oke pʌkʌɽke d ̤ okʌri mẽ
lʌb ̤ -ʌl buɽ ̊ iɑ u-e pʌkʌɽ-ke d ̤ okʌri mẽ

bow-3SG.PST old woman 3SG-ACC grab-SEQ bag LOC

kʌs leli ɑ ɡ ̈ ʌre cʌl
kʌs le-ʌl-i ɑ ɡ ̈ ʌr-e cʌl
place and tighten take-PP-3.PST.F.MH and house-LOC walk

deli
de-ʌl-i

give-PP-3.PST.F.MH
'As the boy climbed down a little and bowed to give her the cake, the old
woman pulled him down, tightened him in a bag and went home.' (05.019)

The examples (31a-s) are a few paragraphs of a Bhojpuri folk-tale, expressing
thematic continuity. All matrix clauses have the verbs in past perfective. Besides, the

sequential converb तोड़के /toɽke/ 'having plucked' in (31f), (31h) and (31k), चढ़के

/cʌɽ ̊ ke/ 'having ascended' in (31h), लभकके /lʌb ̤ ʌkke/ 'having bowed' and चभकके

/cʌb ̤ ʌkke/ 'having grabbed' in (31r) and उतरके /utʌrke/ 'having descended' and पकड़के
/pʌkʌɽke/ 'having grabbed' in (31s) have discourse function of coding the thematic

continuity in Bhojpuri although such sequential participials also mark action
continuity in Bhojpuri discourse.

Moreover, sequential participials in the matrix clauses with finite verbs in
present habitual also mark thematic continuity as well as action continuity in Bhojpuri.

(32) a. बैशाख-जेठ के तपत घाम म1 पीठ जराके,
bʌisɑkʰ jeʈʰ ke tʌpʌt ɡ ̈ ɑm mẽ piʈʰ jʌrɑke

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