ИСТИНА

The category expressing movement of a Trajector with respect to a Landmark – referred to as orientation in the East Caucasian grammatical tradition – is most naturally viewed in these languages as a morphological slot in the inflection of nouns and spatial adverbs. Below, I will show that at least in some of the languages of the family this slot is not a prototypical inflection in the sense that its presence is conditioned by the morphosyntactic context of the form. Specifically, it only marks the last wordform in a spatial adverbial phrase.