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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">A few months ago I posted a query asking about a possible path of
grammaticalization from 'come here' to an attention-attracting particle 'hey'.<span>  </span>The query was motivated by the apparent
existence of such a grammaticalization path in a Home Sign system that I am
currently exploring in Papua.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Subsequent work suggests that in the Papuan Home System in question, the same form may
be undergoing further grammaticalization, assuming the role of a 2nd person
pronoun or index. <span> </span>The entire path of
grammaticalization may thus be represented as<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">'come here' > 'hey' > 'you'<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">My question: Is anybody familiar with other examples, from either signed or
oral languages, of a similar path of grammaticalization, in which a 2nd person
pronoun or index is derived from an attention-attracting particle and/or an
expression meaning 'come here'.<span>  </span>(For
what it's worth, no such cases are listed in Heine and Kuteva's "World
Lexicon of Grammaticalization".)<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Thanks,<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">David<span></span></span></p>





</div><br><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><pre cols="72">David Gil

Senior Scientist (Associate)
Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig, 04103, Germany

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