[Lingtyp] Query: 'come here' > 'hey' > 'you' path of grammaticalization

[David Gil]

Dear all,



A few months ago I posted a query asking about a possible path of
grammaticalization from 'come here' to an attention-attracting particle
'hey'.  The query was motivated by the apparent existence of such a
grammaticalization path in a Home Sign system that I am currently exploring
in Papua.



Subsequent work suggests that in the Papuan Home System in question, the
same form may be undergoing further grammaticalization, assuming the role
of a 2nd person pronoun or index.  The entire path of grammaticalization
may thus be represented as



'come here' > 'hey' > 'you'



My question: Is anybody familiar with other examples, from either signed or
oral languages, of a similar path of grammaticalization, in which a 2nd
person pronoun or index is derived from an attention-attracting particle
and/or an expression meaning 'come here'.  (For what it's worth, no such
cases are listed in Heine and Kuteva's "World Lexicon of
Grammaticalization".)



Thanks,



David

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David Gil

Senior Scientist (Associate)
Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig, 04103, Germany

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