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Dear colleagues,<br>
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I was told occasionally that there is a local relation - let's call
it retrolative - consisting of a movement to reference point R and
back to the point of departure. In the languages that have it in
their grammar, it would be in a paradigm with ablative, allative,
perlative. Unless I am mistaken, English only has it embodied in the
meaning of <i>fetch</i>, and likewise in German <i>holen</i>.<br>
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<li>Is retrolative the right term, or is the relation known under
a different term?</li>
<li>Please give me a representative example of the type 'Jane went
to R round-trip' or 'Jane fetched the axe from the shed' using a
retrolative case or adposition or a retrolative formative in
some other structural category.</li>
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Thanks in advance,<br>
Christian<br>
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