List of grammaticalization pathways?

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In On the Evolution of Grammatical Forms, Heine and Kuteva show this page, without citing any sources that I could find:

They give a small sample of examples of how this might work, such as the verb "say" going to become a subordinating conjunction after evolution (sorry, the PDF is an image, so can't paste the original text).

Where can I find the research listing these "350 common grammaticalization pathways"? Where can I find more gathered collections of grammaticalization examples? I would really like to see a big set of examples of "grammaticalization", evolving from noun or verb into other POS's.

I have long been wondering if we can "get rid of prepositions", and grammaticalization points to exactly that! But in reverse, it at least shows how you can convert a preposition back into a verb or noun, which is amazing, and I would like to see more research on examples and such.

I found more elaboration on the theory in Grammaticalization: A Conceptual Framework (also by Heine), but not a rich guide yet. — Lance, Aug 03 '23 at 21:16
Grammaticalization more often creates adpositions than removes them. — Draconis, Aug 03 '23 at 22:30
I get that, that wasn't the question. I was excited because this shows a path forward on finding the original nouns/verbs from other word types. — Lance, Aug 04 '23 at 01:21

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 04 '23 at 06:33

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I would look at:

Kouteva, T., Heine, B., Hong, B., Long, H., Narrog, H., & Rhee, S. (2019). World Lexicon of Grammaticalization (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. http://doi.org/10.1017/9781316479704

answered Aug 04 '23 at 06:33

Keelan

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