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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Thanks Adam,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">In response
to your question, the the sign in question involves the hand extended upwards and/or
forward, palm facing downwards, with repeated motions of the fingers towards
the signer.<span> </span>With the 'come here', or
beckoning function, this gesture is widespread among oral communities throughout
the world, including Indonesia, Japan, at least parts of the Mediterranean, and elsewhere.<span> </span>The interesting question is whether the
extended, or grammaticalized usages of the sign, meaning 'hey' and/or 'you' found
in the Papuan Home Sign system, are also attested as gestures in oral
communities, either in the neighborhood of the Papuan Home Sign system, or
elsewhere.<span> </span>I suspect that they are not,
or at least not as frequent, and that the 'come here' > 'hey' > 'you'
path of grammaticalization is specific to the Papuan Home Sign system.<span> </span>But I am not sure about this, and am only
beginning to systematically explore the use of gestures amongst the neighboring
oral communities.<span></span></span></p>
<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><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 10:53 PM Adam Schembri <<a href="mailto:adamcgschembri@gmail.com">adamcgschembri@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-6047412122544364200"><div lang="EN-GB" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-6047412122544364200WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Dear David,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>That’s very interesting! <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>In the sign languages I know best (British Sign Language and Auslan – from the same sign language family), the attention-getting sign we gloss as HEY (a handshape with all fingers and thumb extended and held apart, palm oriented downwards, bending downwards at the wrist, held within eye-shot of another signer), the sign BECKON/COME-HERE (either the extended index, or all of the fingers, held palm upwards, bending repeatedly at the knuckles), and the second person pronoun (index finger pointing at the addressee) are all distinct signs that appear to have lexicalised/grammaticalised from related gestures used by hearing non-signers. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Is there any similarity between a beckoning/attention getting gesture used by Papuan non-signers and the sign variety you are studying?<br>Best wishes,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Adam<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8pt;color:black">---<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:8pt;color:black">Adam Schembri (he/him)<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;color:black">Professor of Linguistics<u></u><u></u></span></p><p 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style="font-size:6.5pt;color:black;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="224" height="56" style="width: 2.3333in; height: 0.5833in;" id="m_-6047412122544364200Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:ii_193be3892514ce8e91" alt="University of Birmingham logo."></span></b></a><span style="font-size:6.5pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><i><span style="font-size:6.5pt;color:black">If you have emailed me and are still waiting for a reply, please do not hesitate to get in touch again! Reminders are welcome. </span></i><i><span style="font-size:6.5pt;font-family:"Apple Color Emoji";color:black">😊</span></i><span style="font-size:6.5pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8pt;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div style="border-width:1pt medium medium;border-style:solid none none;border-color:rgb(181,196,223) currentcolor currentcolor;padding:3pt 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Lingtyp <<a href="mailto:lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>> on behalf of David Gil via Lingtyp <<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>><br><b>Reply to: </b>David Gil <<a href="mailto:dapiiiiit@gmail.com" target="_blank">dapiiiiit@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Date: </b>Thursday, 12 December 2024 at 10:54<br><b>To: </b>"<a href="mailto:LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG" target="_blank">LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG</a>" <<a href="mailto:LINGTYP@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">LINGTYP@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>><br><b>Subject: </b>[Lingtyp] Query: 'come here' > 'hey' > 'you' path of grammaticalization<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Dear all,</span><span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">A few months ago I posted a query asking about a possible path of grammaticalization from 'come here' to an attention-attracting particle 'hey'. 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 style="font-size:12pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">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. The entire path of grammaticalization may thus be represented as</span><span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">'come here' > 'hey' > 'you'</span><span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">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'. (For what it's worth, no such cases are listed in Heine and Kuteva's "World Lexicon of Grammaticalization".)</span><span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Thanks,</span><span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">David</span><span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span class="m_-6047412122544364200gmailsignatureprefix">-- </span><u></u><u></u></p><div><div><pre>David Gil<u></u><u></u></pre><pre><u></u> <u></u></pre><pre>Senior Scientist (Associate)<u></u><u></u></pre><pre>Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution<u></u><u></u></pre><pre>Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology<u></u><u></u></pre><pre>Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig, 04103, Germany<u></u><u></u></pre><pre><u></u> <u></u></pre><pre>Email: <a href="mailto:dapiiiiit@gmail.com" target="_blank">dapiiiiit@gmail.com</a><u></u><u></u></pre><pre>Mobile Phone (Israel): +972-526117713<u></u><u></u></pre><pre>Mobile Phone (Indonesia): +62-082113720302<u></u><u></u></pre><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal">_______________________________________________ Lingtyp mailing list <a href="mailto:Lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">Lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a> <a href="https://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lingtyp" target="_blank">https://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lingtyp</a> <u></u><u></u></p></div></div>
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Senior Scientist (Associate)
Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig, 04103, Germany
Email: <a href="mailto:dapiiiiit@gmail.com" target="_blank">dapiiiiit@gmail.com</a>
Mobile Phone (Israel): +972-526117713
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