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

[Anna Bugaeva]

Dear Dmitri,

There is a noun ru ‘trace, track, footprint, road, path’ in Ainu, which is grammaticalized in its possessive form ru-w-e (trace-EP-POSS) ‘the trace of’ as a marker of inferential evidentiality.

Bugaeva, Anna. 2013. Mermaid construction in Ainu In: Tsunoda Tasaku (ed.) Adnominal clauses and the ‘Mermaid Construction’: grammaticalization of nouns (NINJAL Collaborative Research Project Reports 13-01). Tokyo: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, 667-677.

Bugaeva, Anna. 2017. Noun-modifying clause constructions in Ainu. In: Matsumoto, Yoshiko, Comrie, Bernard & Sells, Peter. Noun-Modifying Clause Constructions in Languages of Eurasia: Reshaping theoretical and geographical boundaries. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 203-250.

I gloss it as ru-w-e (trace-EP-POSS) ‘the trace of’ or INF.EV in my papers, but the original word also has the meaning ‘road, path’.

Best wishes,

Anna


From: Dmitri Sitchinava 
Sent: Friday, January 15, 2021 4:10 AM
To: LINGTYP at listserv.linguistlist.org 
Subject: [Lingtyp] Grammatcalization of 'road/way/path'.

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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