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

[Stela Manova]

Hi, 

Bulgarian

път / pǎt  ‘road'
edin pǎt (lit. one road) ‘once’
dva pǎti (lit. two roads) ’twice’
tri pǎti (lit. three roads) ’three times’
etc. 

начин / način ‘way’  
ima način (have + way) ’there is a way’ (it is possible)
njama način ’there is no way’ (it is impossible)

Best, 
Stela



> On 14.01.2021, at 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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