[Lingtyp] orientation

[Peter Austin]

How about "directed motion"?

Peter


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Subject: [Lingtyp] orientation

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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