The question is how to do it, because there are many possible paths, some short and some long, some more interesting and some less interesting.
I suppose the shortest and least problematic path is something like:
vagina, vulva → source, point of origin, birthplace → 3S pronoun → complementizer → predictive/counterfactual marker
Perhaps with an extra stage or two between "point of origin" and full-on grammaticalization as a pronoun. Like going from "source" to "source of debate/discussion, source of an issue" to "the one in question".
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The question is how to do it, because there are many possible paths, some short and some long, some more interesting and some less interesting.
I suppose the shortest and least problematic path is something like:
vagina, vulva → source, point of origin, birthplace → 3S pronoun → complementizer → predictive/counterfactual marker
Perhaps with an extra stage or two between "point of origin" and full-on grammaticalization as a pronoun. Like going from "source" to "source of debate/discussion, source of an issue" to "the one in question".