illativedirectional
Illativedirectional is a proposed linguistic term describing a hypothetical grammatical category that merges illative meaning with directional meaning. In this conception, a single morphosyntactic marker encodes both the destination of motion (illative) and the orientation of that motion along a route. The term is used mainly in theoretical typology and in discussions of constructed languages to illustrate how spatial meaning might be fused into one marker rather than split across separate elements.
Etymology and usage: The name combines illative, a term from case systems that marks motion into a
Morphology and syntax: An illativedirectional marker would likely be realized as a suffix, clitic, or fused
Examples: In a hypothetical language, a noun tal meaning “village” could take a marker -idri to yield