Direction verb
Directional verbs (also: locative verbs ) form a special semantic class of the part of speech Verb . Directional verbs are derived from nouns and describe spatial movement.
Grammaticalization: {(addition of direction) + verb}
Examples
- (on) shoulders = take on the shoulder
- visit
- basement
- canonize
- present
- rope up
- to save
- bury
swell
- Helmut Glück (Ed.): Metzler-Lexikon Sprach , 2000