Allativeinflected

Allativeinflected is a linguistic term describing a form that bears the allative case, which marks movement toward or directed to a location or recipient. It is not a language itself but a morphosyntactic property found in languages that have an allative case. The allative is one of several locational cases used to express directions and goals, alongside others such as inessive, elative, and illative.

In languages with suffixal morphology, the allative is typically expressed as a suffix or clitic attached to the base word. For example, in Finnish the allative is formed with the suffix -lle, as in talolle meaning “to the house.” In Estonian, the allative is similarly expressed with -le, as in majale for “to the house.” Some languages use postpositions or a dedicated prepositional phrase rather than inflection to convey the same meaning, especially in non-fusional or mixed systems.

Allative inflection is distinct from illative inflection, which marks movement into a place (into the house, taloon in Finnish). The two differ in semantic focus: allative concentrates on direction toward something, while illative emphasizes movement into it. In practice, allativeinflected forms interact with vowel harmony, consonant changes, and number or animacy marking, depending on the language.

In computational linguistics and language description, allativeinflected may be used as a label for word forms that carry allative morphology, aiding morphological parsers and grammars in tagging and disambiguating case forms. See also: allative, illative, inessive, elative.