illativedirection
Illativedirection is a theoretical linguistic term used to describe how motion toward a destination is encoded in language when illative-type directional marking intersects with path semantics. The concept centers on the idea that certain languages treat movement into a bounded space or goal as a grammatically marked direction, rather than relying solely on separate verbs and prepositions.
The term appears as a portmanteau of illative, a grammatical category marking motion into a place, and
Cross-linguistic patterns often cited in discussions of illativedirection involve languages with productive illative cases, such as
Applications of the concept include examining morphosyntactic alignment of path information, the interaction between motion verbs