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

[MM Jocelyne Fernandez]

Same locution in French, but not causative /explicative by itself:

"annoncer par voie de presse" = to announce sth in the press

"informer par la voie hiérarchique" = to inform through official channels

[conclusion] "par voie de conséquence," = as a result,

M.M.Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest



Le 14/01/2021 à 23:02, Pier Marco Bertinetto a écrit :
> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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