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<div class="moz-signature">Many thanks to all of you who bothered to
help me out. Just in case you should still be interested in this
kind of diachronic relation, evidence for it may be found in
Cabecar (Chibchan). I had posted the relevant facts, with
examples, on 19/09/2021 under the subject 'instant resumption',
and summarized the discussion on 20/09/2021. Recalling the
relevant facts:<br>
<br>
The language uses the medial demonstrative (i.e. the least marked
one, distinct from the third person pronoun, but the default in
second mentions) as an instant resumptive. (Remember that this has
nothing to do with determination.)<br>
The language has no declension for case, although some
postpositions are enclitic and highly grammaticalized.<br>
<br>
Let N be a noun phrase, then:<br>
[N postposition] is a postpositional phrase.<br>
[resumptive postposition] is a postpositional phrase.<br>
[N resumptive postposition] is a postpositional phrase.<br>
<br>
Instead of N, these constructions may contain a clause S. Then the
following combinations produce a complex clause:<br>
1) [[S1 postposition] S2 ]<br>
2) [S1 resumptive postposition S2 ]<br>
In #1, S1 is clearly a subordinate clause.<br>
In #2, the main boundary may be immediately in front of S2. Then
S1 is still a subordinate clause whose postposition uses the
resumptive as a host, as before.<br>
Or else, the main boundary may immediately follow S1. Then this is
a paratactic construction whose S2 is introduced by a coordinative
conjunction constituted by the postpositional phrase [resumptive
postposition] (like English <i>therefore</i>, <i>thereby</i>
etc).<br>
Since the resumptive is almost always optional, it may be missing,
under certain conditions, even under this last analysis. I.o.w.,
the bare postposition may function as an introductory coordinative
conjunction as if it were preceded by the pronoun.<br>
<br>
In clausal negation, the negator can take these positions (inter
alia):<br>
[N Neg postposition]<br>
[N Neg resumptive postposition]<br>
The order<br>
[N resumptive Neg postposition]<br>
is not possible.<br>
<br>
Generalizations:<br>
The resumptive is becoming a preferred host for postpositions; the
latter become clitic on the resumptive.<br>
The complex [resumptive postposition] has the same function as the
bare postposition.<br>
Under certain conditions, a bare postposition may be used as if it
were governing an invisible pronoun.<br>
I.o.w., the current development by which a postpositional phrase
becomes a postposition may not be the first time that this is
happening in the diachrony.<br>
<br>
In the Karnic languages, the situation appears to be slightly
different because the host to the case suffixes is not a
resumptive demonstrative, but instead a (postnominal) determiner.
Otherwise, I submit that the diachrony of the facts that you
mention is very similar to the above. You will be able to read the
full account of the Cabecar facts, garnished with data, in:<br>
González Campos, Guillermo & Lehmann, Christian 2027, <i>The
Cabecar language.</i> Berlin: de Gruyter Brill (Trends in
Linguistics; Documentation, 49).<br>
(The file will be submitted for publication in a few weeks, but I
have no hypothesis on how long its publication may take.)<br>
-- <br>
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