Page 8 - Bhojpuri Verb Morphology

Copula shows agreement with tense, aspect, gender and honorificity. Copula can

perform two main functions: they act as main verb or they act as the 'helping' verb.

Two types of causativization processes are found in Bhojpuri: Morphological and
syntactic causativization. Morphological causativization is further divided. Causative

marker -and - are suffixed to the verb stem to obtain the notion of causation. In
syntactic causativization vector - bears the meaning of cause, which follows the

infinitive form of main verb. Two types of passivization processes are found in

Bhojpuri. The first type passivization is formed by either of the suffix -, -, -

or- to the verb stem followed by the verb  'go and the second type of

passivization is formed by suffixing - to the non-passive main verb.