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Compound Verbs in Kashika: Bhojpuri Spoken in Varanasi

Dr. Neelam Yadav, NET, Ph.D., D.Litt.

Abstract

This paper aims at discussing the vector or second verb in sentences with compound verbs in Bhojpuri Spoken in Varanasi also called Kashika. It also attempts to focus on honorific inflections in vectors with the main verbs with aptness of instances.

Keywords: Compound verbs, Vector, Second verbs, honorifics, Bhojpuri.

Introduction

It is defined that Compound Verb (CV) refers to a form more than one verb containing a main verb (MV) as a bare stem and at least a secondary element carries the features of tense, number, gender and also indicates honorifics. This secondary element has been variously termed as explicator, operator, auxiliary, vector, etc.

These vectors constitute a small class of typically motion verbs like go, sit, come, give, take, etc. CV is a V(erb)+V(erb) construction, distinct from other complex predicate constructions like N(oun)+V(erb) or A(djective)+V(erb). The latter have been referred to as Conjunct Verbs. (Raj Nath Bhat, 2002)

Suniti Kumar Chatterji (1926) writes, CV phenomenon is widespread in the languages across Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe. In the context of the Indo-Aryan languages, it is opined that CV is a New Indo-Aryan (NIA) innovation. It was non-existent in the Old Indo-Aryan and very rare in the Middle Indo-Aryan (MIA). NIA developed it under the influence of Dravidian languages to compensate for the loss of root modifying prefixes, verbal declensions and for other phonological and grammatical changes that had occurred during the course of historical development from OIA/MIA to NIA.

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Dr. Neelam Yadav, NET, Ph.D., D.Litt.
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