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====Directional preverbs==== | ====Directional preverbs==== | ||
Directionals fall into two types: | Directionals fall into two types: | ||
*Global directionals describe movement towards a final destination. | *Global directionals describe movement towards a final destination or describes a global shape. | ||
*Local directionals describe movement from the speaker's point of view or from a small-scale perspective. These directionals are used especially for fluids and for individual behavior in groups of people or animals. Ex: "locally inwards", "locally outwards", "shearing", "with turbulent motion", "with some local movement opposite to the global direction", etc. | *Local directionals describe movement from the speaker's point of view or from a small-scale perspective. These directionals are used especially for fluids and for individual behavior in groups of people or animals. Ex: "locally inwards", "locally outwards", "shearing", "with turbulent motion", "with some local movement opposite to the global direction", etc. | ||
Some directional preverbs: | |||
*''lyo-'': 'forming a line' | |||
====Verb stem==== | ====Verb stem==== | ||