<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear typologists,</div><div><br>The Algonquian language I’m describing, Oji-Cree, has a locative noun marker that developed out of a denominal suffix meaning ‘there are lots of N/ there are many N’.</div><div><br><b>Is anyone familiar with comparable pathways of change in other languages?</b> </div><div>e.g. denominal suffix > locative, </div><div>‘many’ > locative, </div><div>or barring that, denominal suffixes being reinterpreted as nominal inflection?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Details</b><br>The basic derivation/ pathway of change in Oji-Cree is:<br>1. sakime </div><div>‘mosquito’ (noun)</div><div><br>2. sakime-hkaa </div><div>mosquito-be.many</div><div>‘there are lots of mosquitoes’ (verb)<br><br>3. (kaa-ishi-)sakime-hkaa-k ‘<br>rel-place-mosquito-be.many-sub</div><div>'where there are many mosquitoes’ (verb, adverbial subordinate of location)</div><div>(or, as a place-name, simply sakime-hkaa-k ‘place of many mosquitoes’)</div><div><br>4. --> sakime-hkaak </div><div>mosquito-loc</div><div>‘among the mosquitoes’ (reinterpreted as a noun + inflection)<br><br>This newer locative suffix joins an existing locative suffix -k, but is more specialized in meaning, having a rough semantic range of ‘among, in, inside, surrounded by’.</div><div><br>Any insights would be appreciated,<br><br clear="all"></div><br><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><table style="font-size:11px;color:#333333;clear:both;margin:0;font-family:Futura,"Century Gothic",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border:none!important;line-height:1.2" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" valign="top" style="border:none!important;padding:10px 0;color:#333333;line-height:1.2"><table style="font-size:11px;color:#333333;clear:both;margin:0 0 5px 0;font-family:Futura,"Century Gothic",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border:none!important;min-width:50px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="border-left:none!important;border-right:none!important;border-bottom:none!important;border-top:5px solid #000000;padding-top:8px"><a style="color:#000000!important;text-decoration:none" href="https://www.wycliffe.ca/member/windsor-mattcaitlin/" title="View my profile at wycliffe.ca" target="_blank"><b style="font-size:14px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none">Matthew Windsor</b></a></td></tr></tbody></table>Cell: <a style="color:#333333!important;text-decoration:none" href="tel:807.631.6656" target="_blank">807.631.6656</a><br>ᐃᐦᑭᑐᐃᐧᐣ ᑮᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᒦᓇ ᑭᑮᐃᐧᒋᐊᔮᒥᑯᓈᐣ.</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div>