<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="font-size: 21px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4" style="font-size: 23px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px; ">A common etymology of the Hebrew relative pronoun <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4" style="font-size: 23px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px; "><i>’ăšέr <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; ">is < “place” grammaticalized<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4" style="font-size: 23px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px; "><i>.</i></span></font></span></span></i></span></font></span></span></font></div><div style="font-size: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><div style="font-size: 15px; ">On 21 Oct 2009, at 10:54, peterarkadiev wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="font-size: 15px; "><blockquote type="cite"><div>Dear colleagues,<br><br>According to the dictionary of Lithuanian language (<a href="http://www.lkz.lt/startas.htm">http://www.lkz.lt/startas.htm</a>), the wh-word *kur*, whose basic meaning is 'where', can in some dialects be used as a general relativizer similar to English *that*. Cf. a nice example where this word is used both to form a question about location, and to relativize the subject:<br><br>Kur tas piemuo, kur gano šitas kiaules?<br>where that(NOM.SG) shepherd(NOM.SG) who pasture(PRS.3) pig(ACC.PL)<br>'Where is that shepherd, who (lit. where) pastures pigs?'<br><br>I wonder whether this or similar kinds of polysemy are attested cross-linguistically.<br><br>Thanks a lot!<br><br>With best wishes,<br><br>Peter Arkadiev<br>Institute of Slavic Studies<br>Moscow<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>