illativeinto
Illativeinto is a term used in linguistics to describe a proposed cross-linguistic semantic-pragmatic function that equates the illative directional sense “into” with the English preposition into. The term is not widely standardized but has appeared in typological discussions as a label for comparing how languages encode inbound motion toward the interior of a bounded space.
Relation to illative case: The illative is a grammatical case used in several languages (notably the Finnic
Morphosyntactic realization: When a language encodes illative meaning via suffixes, postpositions, or prepositions, illativeinto seeks to
Examples: In a constructed language Luma, talo-into would mean “into the house.” In languages with explicit illative
Note: English lacks a dedicated illative case; illativeinto is a theoretical construct used in comparative linguistics.