<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font size="4" class="">Hi, </font><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">Bulgarian</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><b class=""><font size="4" class="">път / pǎt ‘road'</font></b></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">edin pǎt (lit. one road) ‘once’</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">dva pǎti (lit. two roads) ’twice’</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">tri pǎti (lit. three roads) ’three times’</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">etc. </font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><b class="">начин / način ‘way’</b> </font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">ima način (have + way) ’there is a way’ (it is possible)</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">njama način ’there is no way’ (it is impossible)</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">Best, </font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">Stela</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 14.01.2021, at 20:10, Dmitri Sitchinava <<a href="mailto:mitrius@gmail.com" class="">mitrius@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Dear typologists.</span></div><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div>Me and my colleague are interested in grammaticalization patterns with nouns meaning 'road/way/path'. </span><div class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">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; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The pattern 'way/matter' is also well-known, but to give you a few more examples: English intensifier <i class="">way</i> too, French <i class="">être en voie de</i> and Swedish <i class="">på väg att</i> (~to be about to), German <i class="">wegen</i> 'because of'. The famous <i class="">way</i>-construction (<i class="">to V one's way</i>) is also worth mentioning.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">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 class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best</div><div class="">Dmitri</div></div>
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