grammaticalisation

[Vladimir Morozov]

Dear Colleagues,


Could somebody please give me an example of grammticalisation whereby progressive (or maybe some other) aspect in a language is historically derived from a verb with locative semantics, i.e. ‘to be in a place’ or the like?


Many thanks.


Vladimir

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