[Lingtyp] orientation

[Alex Francois]

Dear Christian,

Your category §1 looks like it could be called “directional verbs”.

Some languages have directional adverbs, directional affixes, etc.;  but in
Romance languages, the motion path is often encoded by (what could be
called) directional verbs.

For your §2, indeed "manner-of-motion verbs" sounds suitable.

best
Alex
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From: Christian Lehmann via Lingtyp <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Sept 2025 at 15:55
Subject: [Lingtyp] orientation
To: <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org>


Dear colleagues,

allow me to bother you again with a terminological question. (I have a hope
that one or another of these little problems that pop up in my work may be
of interest to others, and the terminological solutions may then be
adopted).

In Cabecar grammaticography, I have overused the term family 'orient -
oriented - orientation'. I am looking for substitutes. One context in which
I hope for an equivalent or even better term is motion verbs. Consider this
Spanish example:

   1. *entrar *'move in',* salir* 'move out', *subir *move up',* bajar* 'move
   down', etc.
   2. *saltar* 'jump', *nadar* 'swim', *ambular* 'wander' etc.

The semantic and syntactic difference between these two sets has been
well-known at least since the work by Leonard Talmy. I have followed other
authors in naming them 'oriented motion' vs. 'manner of motion'.. Now I
want to get rid of the word *oriented* here. What else have verbs such as
those of series 1 been called?

Thank you very much for your help,
Christian

PS: Should anybody be interested, I am, of course, ready to reveal the
other uses of the above term family.
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