[Lingtyp] Lingtyp Digest, Vol 76, Issue 16
David Beck
dbeck at ualberta.ca
Fri Jan 15 17:25:16 UTC 2021
In Totonacan languages, there is a prefix teː- that is added to verbs meaning ‘X’ to derive a verb meaning ‘do X while passing by’
Upper Necaxa Totonac
waní ’say sth to sby’ > teːwaní ‘pass by to say sth to sby’
puːtayá ’step on/in sth’ > teːpuːtayá ’step on/in sth in passing’
ɬtṵkú ’stab/gore sby’ > teːɬtṵkú ‘pass by and stab/gore sby’
čḭntaːšnán ‘leave footprints’ > teːčḭntaːšnán ‘come by and leave footprints’
This prefix seems to be cognate with *tihi ‘road, path’, which is tex or teh synchronically in several of the modern languages.
David Beck
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> 1. Grammatcalization of 'road/way/path'. (Dmitri Sitchinava)
> 2. Re: Grammatcalization of 'road/way/path'. (Jess Tauber)
> 3. Re: Grammatcalization of 'road/way/path'. (Jussi Ylikoski)
> 4. Re: Grammatcalization of 'road/way/path'. (David Gil)
> 5. Re: Grammatcalization of 'road/way/path'. (Nicholas Kontovas)
> 6. Re: Grammatcalization of 'road/way/path'. (Pier Marco Bertinetto)
> 7. Re: Grammatcalization of 'road/way/path'. (Mathias Jenny)
> 8. Re: Grammatcalization of 'road/way/path'. (Christian Lehmann)
> 9. Re: Grammatcalization of 'road/way/path'. (Stela Manova)
> 10. Re: Grammatcalization of 'road/way/path'. (André Müller)
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> From: Dmitri Sitchinava <mitrius at gmail.com>
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> 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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> From: Jess Tauber <tetrahedralpt at gmail.com>
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> 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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> Dear Dmitri,
>
> This may not be that exciting semantically, but here are two examples from Finnic (Uralic) languages:
>
> In Finnish, a case-like "prolative" suffix -(i)tse can be attached to nouns like tie 'way; road', yielding adverbs like teitse 'along a road'. Incidentally, teitse has aquired an instrumental meaning 'by way of', and has itself become a suffix that can be attached to nouns denoting judicial and administrative procedures, means and channels of communication, and medical procedures and instruments etc.: sopimusteitse 'by (way of) agreement' (← sopimus 'agreement; contract'), satelliittiteitse 'by satellite' (← satelliitti 'satellite'), pisarateitse 'via droplet (aerosol) transmission' (← pisara 'drop'), and laparotomiateitse 'via laparotomy' (← laparotomia 'laparotomy'). I have described the phenomenon in a paper in Finnish, with an English summary "On Finnish prolatives and instrumentals: -(i)tse and -teitse in between grammar and lexicon" found at https://journal.fi/sananjalka/article/view/69978/37590 .
>
> In Estonian, the adessive case form of tee 'way; road' (cognate of Finnish tie id.) is also used as a kind of postposition with an instrumental meaning: telefoni teel 'by telephone', korruptsiooni teel 'by corruption' etc.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jussi
>
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> 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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> From: David Gil <gil at shh.mpg.de>
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> Subject: Re: [Lingtyp] Grammatcalization of 'road/way/path'.
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> 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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> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 22:54:59 +0100
> From: Nicholas Kontovas <kontovas at gmail.com>
> To: Dmitri Sitchinava <mitrius at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Lingtyp] Grammatcalization of 'road/way/path'.
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> 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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> From: Pier Marco Bertinetto <piermarco.bertinetto at sns.it>
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> 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
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Lingtyp mailing list
>>> Lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org
>>> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/mailman/listinfo/lingtyp
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> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 09:52:41 +0100
> From: Mathias Jenny <mathias.jenny at uzh.ch>
> To: Dmitri Sitchinava <mitrius at gmail.com>
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> Dear Dmitri
>
> Shan (Tai-Kadai, Myanmar) has *táŋ* 'way between two places, road' with
> the extended meanings 'antecedent, way, means, cause, raeson'. This noun is
> also used as nominalizing prefix on verbs, resulting in action/quality and
> object (but never subject/actor) nominalization (*tǎŋ-kǐn *'food',
> *táŋ-cɐ́ŋ* 'hatred', *táŋ-mɐj* 'heat, temperature', etc., from the verbs
> *kǐn* 'to eat', *cɐ́ŋ* 'to hate', *mɐj* 'be hot' respectively). This
> prefix is productive and also occurs with (recent) Burmese loans. In
> closely related Thai, the corresponding noun *tʰaːŋ* does not have this
> function, but also serves as a locative/proximative preposition.
>
> Best wishes
> Mathias
>
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> On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 8:11 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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> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 11:26:22 +0100
> From: Christian Lehmann <christian.lehmann at uni-erfurt.de>
> To: lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org
> Subject: Re: [Lingtyp] Grammatcalization of 'road/way/path'.
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> German /im Wege/ is treated in
>
> Lehmann, Christian 1991, “Grammaticalization and related changes in
> contemporary German”. Traugott, Elizabeth C. & Heine, Bernd (eds.),
> /Approaches to grammaticalization/. Vol. II: /Focus on types of
> grammatical markers/. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: J. Benjamins
> (Typological Studies in Language, 19:2); 2:493-535.
>
> [
> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/246338410_Grammaticalization_and_related_changes_in_contemporary_German
> ]
>
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> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 12:19:32 +0100
> From: Stela Manova <stela.manova at univie.ac.at>
> To: Dmitri Sitchinava <mitrius at gmail.com>
> Cc: LINGTYP at listserv.linguistlist.org
> Subject: Re: [Lingtyp] Grammatcalization of 'road/way/path'.
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> 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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> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 14:17:00 +0100
> From: André Müller <esperantist at gmail.com>
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> Dear Dmitri,
>
> In Jinghpaw (Tibeto-Burman; Myanmar) the word *lam* [lam] ‘road, path, way’
> is often used as an action or state nominalizer, e.g.:
>
> - *hkam kaja lam* [kʰɐm kəʥa lɐm] ‘health’ (lit. healthy good way)
> - *myit hkrum lam* [mjɪ̀t kʰɹʊ́m lɐm] ‘agreement’ (lit. mind meet way)
> - *shat nnan sha ai lam* [ɕɐ̀t ǹ̩nɐn ɕá ʔaj lɐm] ‘thanksgiving’ (lit.
> rice new eat NMLZ way)
> - *shawng lam* [ɕɔŋ lam] ‘future’ (lit. front way)
> - *simsa lam* [sɪ̀msɐ́ʔ lam] ‘peace’ (lit. ??? way)
>
> The names of folk stories also often end with *lam*, so it can also mean
> something like "The story of ..." or more generally "How/why ... happened".
>
> This nominalization usage seems has been calqued into Lhaovo
> (Tibeto-Burman; Myanmar) as well with the word *khyo* [kʰjò] ‘road, way’:
> - *pha, jhi" khyo* [pʰàʔ ʨí kʰjò] ‘education’ (lit. knowledge way; the
> first part is borrowed from Jinghpaw *hpa-ji* [pʰɐ̀ʔʥí] ‘knowledge’)
>
> There might be mutual influence with Shan (Tai-Kadai; Myanmar), mentioned
> by Mathias Jenny above, but I cannot really say which language influenced
> which in this case.
>
> Best wishes,
> — André Müller
> (University of Zurich)
>
> Am Do., 14. Jan. 2021 um 20:10 Uhr schrieb Dmitri Sitchinava <
> mitrius at gmail.com>:
>
>> 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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