venitive meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

venitive

adj

Etymology From Latin veniō (“to come, to approach”).

Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Particle, Of a word Indicating motion to or toward a thing.

The venitive suffix associates an event of ‘motion to or toward’ to the main verb.2007, Loretta O’Connor, Motion, Transfer and Transformation: The grammar of change in Lowland Chontal, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 131:

Coordinate terms: andative

venitive

noun

Etymology From Latin veniō (“to come, to approach”).

Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A grammatical word, particle, or inflection that indicates motion to or toward a thing; or, the indication so provided.

[…] a derivational suffix indicating ‘movement toward the speaker or deictic center’. […] a derivational venitive […]1994, Joan L. Bybee, Revere Dale Perkins, and William Pagliuca, The evolution of grammar: tense, aspect, and modality in the languages of the world, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, pages 11–12: