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Table 15.13 Summary of the word orders and the Bhojpuri language
Greenberg's Parameters Correlation

universal
Implications Correlation in Bhojpuri

2 Genitive and head noun GEN-head head-GEN
4 Adpositions Postpositions Postpositions

5 Adjective and head head-ADJ ADJ-head
noun

8 Yes/no question Intonational Sentence final
9 Affixes Suffix Suffix>prefix>infix

12 Interrogative word no invariant rule no invariant rule
16 Auxiliary and verb verb-AUX verb-AUX

18 Head noun and modifier-head modifier-head
modifier

22 Comparision of standard-marker- standard-marker-ADJ
superiority ADJ
24 Relative clause and Relative Relative clause-head

head noun clause-head noun noun
Table 15.13 shows that Bhojpuri as an SOV language confirms all the

implicational universals with regard to word orders proposed in Greenberg (1963)
allowing ADJ-N, DEM-N and NUM-N order in common with other NIA languages

(see Chapter 8.2 for details).
15.2.3 Morphological valence increasing strategies

The morphological valence increasing strategies such as morphological
causative is present in the Bhojpuri language along with its close neighbours Maithili,
Awadhi, Hindi and Nepali. Morphological causatives are one of the areal features

proposed in Masica (1976:189)
15.2.4 Reflexive and numeral classifiers

As in the neighbouring NIA languages Bhojpuri has lexical reflexives (see
10.3.1 for details). The numeral classifiers; as in Maithili, Awadhi and Nepali; are

present in the Bhojpuri language (see 5.1.1 for details). In Hindi numeral classifiers
are almost absent. The numeral classifiers are one of the South Asian areal features

(Masica, 1976:189).

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