[Lingtyp] Grammatcalization of 'road/way/path'.

[David Gil]

In Hebrew, the noun /švil/ 'path', preceded by the instrumental/locative 
proclitic /bi=/, yields /bišvil/, which is the most common way of 
expressing benefactive 'for'.

(In really colloquial slang, /bišvil /as a complete utterance, with 
stress shift from final to penultimate, can also be interpreted as a WH 
question 'What for?')
//

David


On 14/01/2021 21:10, Dmitri Sitchinava wrote:
> Dear typologists.
> Me and my colleague are interested in grammaticalization patterns with 
> nouns meaning 'road/way/path'.
>
> In Svorou (1994) various examples of grammaticalization into spatial 
> grams are provided, but examples beyond the spatial domain are 
> probably even more interesting.
> The pattern 'way/matter' is also well-known, but to give you a few 
> more examples: English intensifier /way/ too, French /être en voie de/ 
> and Swedish /på väg att/ (~to be about to), German /wegen/ 'because 
> of'. The famous /way/-construction (/to V one's way/) is also worth 
> mentioning.
>
> We would appreciate it if you could help us to collect more data so 
> that we could get a more diverse sample and would not miss some 
> potentially interesting patterns.
>
> Best
> Dmitri
>
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