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

[Pier Marco Bertinetto]

Italian has the causative/explicative locution
per via di
by/for/through way of
Best
Pier Marco


Il giorno gio 14 gen 2021 alle ore 21:20 Jess Tauber <
tetrahedralpt at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> In Yahgan (critically endangered genetic isolate, TIerra del Fuego) wa:
> (colon marks tenseness of vowel preceding it) is 'way, path, road, trail'.
> kvnda:m (v schwa) is 'the way or manner of doing something, how done'  with
> an interrogative counterpart kunda:m 'how done, in what way, manner',. It
> may be that the final -m of these two forms historically comes from wa: (or
> wa: may originally have started with a labial nasal phoneme).
>
> Jess Tauber
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 2:10 PM 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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