[Lingtyp] "become"

[David Gil]

Greetings, typologists, from the New Guinea Bird's Head.

Does anybody know of any cross-linguistic studies examining the 
historical sources and etymologies of words or affixes that mean "become"?

Alternatively, is anybody familiar with cases in which a word meaning 
"become" has its origin in a word meaning "make"/"do"?

Thanks,

David

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David Gil

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