nonesuch 98: the two meanings ‘sun’ and ‘future tense’ expressed by the same form (because the future is grammaticalized from the adverb sina ‘tomorrow’, which in turn derives from si-na ‘sun-come’)
Where found
Mandinka (Mande, Niger-Congo)
Domain
semantics
Subdomain
polysemy
Keywords
tense, future, grammaticalization
Type
nonesuch
Universals violated
none
Source
Claudi, Ulrike (1994). Word order change as category change: The Mande case. In William Pagliuca (ed.), Perspectives on Grammaticalization, 191-231. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
