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<p>In Hebrew, the noun <i>švil</i> 'path', preceded by the
instrumental/locative proclitic <i>bi=</i>, yields <i>bišvil</i>,
which is the most common way of expressing benefactive 'for'.</p>
<p>(In really colloquial slang, <i>bišvil </i>as a complete
utterance, with stress shift from final to penultimate, can also
be interpreted as a WH question 'What for?')<br>
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<p>David</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 14/01/2021 21:10, Dmitri Sitchinava
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<div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear typologists.</span></div>
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap">
</span></div>Me and my colleague are interested in grammaticalization patterns with nouns meaning 'road/way/path'. </span>
<div><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap">In Svorou (1994) various examples of grammaticalization into spatial grams are provided, but examples beyond the spatial domain are probably even more interesting.</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap">The pattern 'way/matter' is also well-known, but to give you a few more examples: English intensifier <i>way</i> too, French <i>être en voie de</i> and Swedish <i>på väg att</i> (~to be about to), German <i>wegen</i> 'because of'. The famous <i>way</i>-construction (<i>to V one's way</i>) is also worth mentioning.</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap">We would appreciate it if you could help us to collect more data so that we could get a more diverse sample and would not miss some potentially interesting patterns.</span> <br>
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