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

[JOO Ian]

Dear David,

Korean yepo ‘dear, darling, honey’ < ye po-si-o <here look-HON-IMP> ‘look here, hey’.

From Otaru,
Ian

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12.12.2024 19:55, David Gil via Lingtyp <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org> 작성:


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

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