Hi David,We should certainly expect forms like plural pronouns and "your slave" to continue to agree in person and number with their original literal meanings even when they are fully grammaticalised as pronouns, whatever that might mean. Thus French "vous" and German "Sie" take second person plural and third person plural verb forms even when used as polite second person singular pronouns, and I am almost sure that Turkish "bendeniz" continues to take third person pronouns. Thus this is not a test of grammaticalisation. It would indeed be strange if Hebrew 'adoni hammelek took second person singular agreement.
Thank you for your helpful clarifications.
One minor clarification on my side: in my post (quoted below) I purposely avoided discussing 'adoni hammelek for the very reasons you mention. I focused on only the transformation from 2nd person notion (e.g. tishma') to 3rd person surface (yishma`) and `ebed + pronominal suffix, which has wide application.
I do accept that grammaticalization may be more rigorous than I had realized. I am still not sure why tishma` -> yishma` would not qualify.
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