Rara #98
Legacy number: 98
| Number | 98 |
| Phenomenon | 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') |
| Found in | Mandinka (Mande, Niger-Congo) |
| Domain | semantics — polysemy |
| Type | nonesuch |
| Keywords | tense, future, grammaticalization |
| Source | Claudi, Ulrike (1994). Word order change as category change: The Mande case. In William Pagliuca (ed.), Perspectives on Grammaticalization, 191-231. Amsterdam: Benjamins. |
| Violates | none |
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