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<DIV><FONT style="face: meiryo">Dear Dmitri,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT style="face: meiryo">There is a noun <EM>ru</EM> ‘trace, track,
footprint, road, path’ in Ainu, which is grammaticalized in its possessive form
<EM>ru-w-e</EM> (trace-EP-POSS) ‘the trace of’ as a marker of inferential
evidentiality.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Bugaeva, Anna. 2013. Mermaid construction in Ainu In: Tsunoda Tasaku (ed.)
Adnominal clauses and the ‘Mermaid Construction’: grammaticalization of nouns
(NINJAL Collaborative Research Project Reports 13-01). Tokyo: National Institute
for Japanese Language and Linguistics, 667-677.</DIV>
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<DIV>Bugaeva, Anna. 2017. Noun-modifying clause constructions in Ainu. In:
Matsumoto, Yoshiko, Comrie, Bernard & Sells, Peter. Noun-Modifying Clause
Constructions in Languages of Eurasia: Reshaping theoretical and geographical
boundaries. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 203-250.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT style="face: meiryo">I gloss it as <EM>ru-w-e</EM> (trace-EP-POSS)
‘the trace of’ or INF.EV in my papers, but the original word also has the
meaning ‘road, path’.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT style="face: meiryo">Best wishes,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT style="face: meiryo">Anna</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=mitrius@gmail.com
href="mailto:mitrius@gmail.com">Dmitri Sitchinava</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, January 15, 2021 4:10 AM</DIV>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Lingtyp] Grammatcalization of
'road/way/path'.</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: tahoma,sans-serif,arial,helvetica; WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">Dear
typologists.</SPAN></DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: tahoma,sans-serif,arial,helvetica; WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">
<DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: tahoma,sans-serif,arial,helvetica; WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><BR></SPAN></DIV>Me
and my colleague are interested in grammaticalization patterns with nouns
meaning 'road/way/path'. </SPAN>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: tahoma,sans-serif,arial,helvetica; WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">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
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style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: tahoma,sans-serif,arial,helvetica; WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">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
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style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: tahoma,sans-serif,arial,helvetica; WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">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></DIV>
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<DIV>Best</DIV>
<DIV>Dmitri</DIV></DIV>
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