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Dear Sebastian, <br>
if you want to include in your query the grammaticalization of "come "
as an auxiliary, then you should look for Italian, where venire "come"
is used for passive diathesis:<br>
la casa venne distrutta<br>
the house came destroyed = was destroyed<br>
In trhis context it would also be possible to use andare "go":<br>
la casa andò distrutta.<br>
I refer you to :<br>
A. Giacalone Ramat
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best wishes<br>
Anna<br>
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Il 21/12/2009 17:33, Sebastian Nordhoff ha scritto:
<blockquote cite="mid:4B2FA351.9050503@eva.mpg.de" type="cite">Dear
colleagues,
<br>
I am looking for languages with a copula where this copula derives from
the lexical verb meaning 'to come'. One such language is Sri Lanka
Malay where the copula /asàdhaathang/ is clearly related to the verb
/dhaathang/ 'to come' (The copula is homonymous with the 'conjunctive
participle', to be precise). <br>
(1) Se=ppe naama asàdhaathang Cintha Sinthani. 1s=poss name
copula Chintha Sinthani
<br>
`My name is Chintha Sinthani.' <br>
This seems to be a rather unusual diachronic source; it is more common
for the copula to develop from an existential or a pronoun. I would
appreciate if list members could point out languages with similar
developments. I would also be happy to hear about less-than-perfect
matches, e.g. grammaticalization of 'come' to an auxiliary, or
grammaticalization of another motion verb to a copula. I have consulted
The World Lexicon of Grammaticalization (Heine & Kuteva 2002), and
the closest match I could find was come-->resultative as found in
some Creole languages (Seychellois, Guyanese CF, Fa d'Ambu).
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<br>
Thanks in advance
<br>
Sebastian
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