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The document discusses the grammaticalization path of deictic spatial adverbs into adpositions. It provides evidence from Tswana, where words originally used as deictic spatial adverbs (meaning "here", "there") can now be analyzed as emerging prepositions. The grammaticalization process results from the routinization of the locative apposition construction, where a deictic spatial adverb is juxtaposed with a spatial expression including a noun. Over time, this construction is extended to contexts where the
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