Heine, Kuteva et al. 2019

Heine B., Kuteva T. et al. World lexicon of grammaticalization. Second, extensively revised and updated edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Realizations (30)

Shift Language Lexeme Source Target Page
#3445 Old Chinese dú (獨, 独) alone, lonely → only, just 55
#3445 Bulgarian сам (sam) alone → only, just 55
#3445 Basque bakarrik by oneself → only, just 56
#3445 Swahili peke yake alone (third person singular) → only, just 56
#8707 Icelandic maður human being, person, man, male → indefinite pronoun 279
#6408 Baka (Cameroon, Gabon) sítí evil (adj.), bad → very 68
#6408 Siroi ŋayo bad → very, extremely 68-69
#231 Mandarin Chinese si55 (Wanrong dialect) dead → (Wanrong dialect) very 69
#1172 Mandarin Chinese ʂʌŋ51 (Wanrong dialect) hurt → (Wanrong dialect) very 69
#938 German furchtbar terrible → very 68
#6408 English badly badly → very 68
#3846 Baka (Cameroon, Gabon) ko truly, really → very 443
#449 Rutul ul eye → before
#449 Maninka ɲɛ́ eye → (postposition) before 165
#449 Bamana nyὲ eye → before 165-166
#445 Maninka ɲɛ́ face — eye 165
#9244 Imonda lõh to stand → copula 409
#9244 Khwe tìín to stand → to be, exist 409
#484 !Kung (Central Ju) ts’i mouth → in front of 286
#484 Susu dè mouth → (locative postposition) in front of 286
#484 Mursi -tutuo mouth → in front 287
#10431 Classical Chinese *ʔij (伊) this; that → he, him; she, her; it 142
#10431 Mandarin Chinese uǝ (Yongshou dialect of Zhongyuan Mandarin) that → (Yongshou dialect of Zhongyuan Mandarin) person singular 142
#10431 Korean ce that → third-person singular 142
#10431 Korean ku that → third-person singular 142
#10431 Latin ille that → third-person singular 142
#10431 Egyptian pw this → third-person singular 142
#10431 Lezgian a that → third-person singular 143
#10431 New South Wales Pidgin dat that → third-person singular 143
#10431 Sranan Tongo da that → it 143