Three Dollar Quill

Okay, I am not ready to set up grammaticalization in my pipeline, so I'm going to make sure I have all of the etymologies set up, and try to lay out what needs to happen.

The missing etymology for cases is a case that I'm calling locative, but it's kind of broader. I'm not totally happy with any etymology I've come up with yet.

From the future: "grassland" would fit reasonably with the metaphor I have for the other cases

So, for the moment, let's consider how I'm planning to handle erosion of grammatical cases.

• Split the sound changes into before and after
• Combine any individual words that will need it into a "combined lexicon"
• Apply a small number of aggressive sound changes to create an "eroded lexicon"
• Combine words from the eroded lexicon with the main lexicon, to create a "grammaticalized lexicon"
• Apply the rest of the sound changes

Anyway, that's keeping things going well enough for my taste. I'm getting tired, so I'll try to wrap up.

Good night.