[Lingtyp] retrolative

[Christian Lehmann]

Dear colleagues,

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 /fetch/, and 
likewise in German /holen/.

 1. Is retrolative the right term, or is the relation known under a
    different term?
 2. 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.

Thanks in advance,
Christian
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