Hi David,
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.
Thanks also for the bibliographic references!
Shalom,
Bryan
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