[Lingtyp] retrolative

[Nigel Vincent]

What about verbs like gather and harvest?
e.g. Where did you get those flowers? I gathered them from my neighbour's garden.
All the wheat from this field has been harvested.

Or collect as in You can collect your parcel from the Post Office tomorrow

Nigel



Professor Nigel Vincent, FBA MAE
Professor Emeritus of General & Romance Linguistics
The University of Manchester

Linguistics & English Language
School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
The University of Manchester



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Subject: [Lingtyp] retrolative

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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