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

[Nicholas Kontovas]

Dear Dmitri,

Not particularly rare, but Turkish has at least two examples of "way/path"
in the early stages of grammaticalization into different postpositions that
I can think of at the moment:

yoluyla
yol-u=yla
path-POS3=INS
"by means of"

yolunda
yol-un-da
path-POS3-LOC
"on the way to, well poised to"

Best,

Niko Kontovas

On Thu, 14 Jan 2021, 20:10 Dmitri Sitchinava, <mitrius at gmail.com> 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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