View source for NTNU, LING1133 (2009) - Directionality in Norwegian

''Direction'' or perhaps better '''Directionality''' is a relational concept which encodes at least two parameters - 'away from a reference object' and ' towards a reference object'. Linguists have distinguished 'projective direction' from 'absolute direction' where absolute directions is mostly in the vertical space (up and down; yet the latter is of course in reality also projective directions with a very, very large reference object (Earth). 

As part of speech direction is usually encoded in one of three different ways in Norwegian: as a verb, as a preposition or as a combination of these. Here are some examples:

Towards referential object:

''mot''

''komme''

''til''

''hit''

''hitover''

''herover''

Away from referential object:

''gå''

''dra/fare''

''[[stikke]]''

''fra''

''dit''

Up

''opp''

''stige''

Down

''ned''

''synke''

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