Meanings
- not comparablegrammarIndicating motion away from something.
plural andatives
- grammarA grammatical word, particle, or inflection that indicates motion away from something; or, the indication so provided.
However, most of the andatives and venitives in our database do not have future as a use. Bernd Heine (p.c.) reports that andative and venitive are usually derivational in African languages and occur in different types of constructions than movement-futures (see also Heine and Reh, 1984:142).
1991, Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Approaches to Grammaticalization, volume 2, page 49
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