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Dear Dmitri,</div>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="FI">This may not be that exciting semantically, but here are two examples from Finnic (Uralic) languages:<br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="FI">In Finnish, a case-like "prolative" suffix -<i>(i)tse</i> can be attached to nouns like
<i>tie</i> 'way; road', yielding adverbs like <i>teitse</i> 'along a road'. Incidentally,
<i>teitse</i> has aquired an instrumental meaning 'by way of', and has itself become a suffix that can be attached to nouns denoting judicial and administrative procedures, means and channels of communication, and medical procedures and instruments etc.:
<i>sopimusteitse</i> 'by (way of) agreement' (← <i>sopimus</i> 'agreement; contract'),
<i>satelliittiteitse</i> 'by satellite' (← <i>satelliitti</i> 'satellite'), <i>pisarateitse</i> 'via droplet (aerosol) transmission' (←
<i>pisara</i> 'drop'), and <i>laparotomiateitse</i> 'via laparotomy' (← <i>laparotomia</i> 'laparotomy'). I have described the phenomenon in a paper in Finnish, with an English summary "On Finnish prolatives and instrumentals: -<i>(i)tse</i> and -<i>teitse</i>
in between grammar and lexicon" found at <a href="https://journal.fi/sananjalka/article/view/69978/37590" id="LPlnk">
https://journal.fi/sananjalka/article/view/69978/37590</a> . <o:p><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="FI">In Estonian, the adessive case form of
<i>tee</i> 'way; road' (cognate of Finnish <i>tie</i> id.) is also used as a kind of postposition with an instrumental meaning:
<i>telefoni teel</i> 'by telephone'<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:FI;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes">,
</span><i><span lang="FI">korruptsiooni teel</span></i><span lang="FI"> 'by corruption' etc.</span></span><o:p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="FI">Best regards,<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="FI">Jussi<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>Frá:</b> Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org> fyrir hönd Dmitri Sitchinava <mitrius@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> fimmtudagur, 14. janúar 2021 21:10<br>
<b>Til:</b> LINGTYP@listserv.linguistlist.org <LINGTYP@listserv.linguistlist.org><br>
<b>Efni:</b> [Lingtyp] Grammatcalization of 'road/way/path'.</font>
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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>
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Me and my colleague are interested in grammaticalization patterns with nouns meaning 'road/way/path'.
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<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">
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<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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<div>Best</div>
<div>Dmitri</div>
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