Grammaticalization is a fuck

  • pancake@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 days ago

    Now I feel the obsessive urge to resume working on my conlang. Productivity sucked away for weeks :(

    • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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      2 days ago

      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".