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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 February 2020
This pathway appears to be based on a conceptualization of agents as sources of actions (see Luraghi 2014). According to Palancar (2002: 205), ablatives form by far the most common spatial category found in the syncretism of passive agent markers. While the present pathway may provide a natural choice in any language, it has been exploited especially but not only in Indo-European languages. In languages showing this pathway, ablative or source markers (‘(away) from’) gradually develop into markers encoding agent participants (see Palancar 2002: 205, table 7; Wiemer 2011a: 541) as shown in the following two examples.
Archaic Chinese yu ‘from’, ablative preposition (> switch stage, either ablative or agent marker) > yu, preposition introducing agents (Long et al. 2012). Modern Chinese you ‘from’, ablative preposition (> cause marker) > you, preposition introducing agents (Long et al. 2012). Qiang -wu, ablative postposition > -wu, agent postposition (Long et al. 2012).
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