Meaning of counterdirectional | Babel Free

Definitions

Of or related to the opposite direction.

Examples

“When set⟳ in motion the floating frame assumes a definite counterdirectional motion, imparted by the unbalanced forces.”

“There is a close⟳ connection between the counterdirectional meaning and the restitutive meaning: a counterdirectional movement leads one back to a place⟳, or rather, many places where one was earlier.”

“Givón can be credited with initiating the theoretical discussion of unidirectionality as it is allegedly argued in his 1975 work⟳ that counterdirectional change⟳ is simply not attested (Chao 1968b: 96).”

“Verbal particles are not structurally uniform; the restitutive újra ‘again’ and the counterdirectional vissza ‘back’ are inserted into the structure⟳ in different places, lending further support⟳ to previous assumptions that some verbal particles are not secondary predicates introducing their own⟳ subject but are predicate modifiers.”

“We consequently predicted that the leading copy⟳ will be more transcribed than the lagging copy⟳ when transcription and replication are codirectional, while the lagging copy⟳ will be more expressed when they are counterdirectional.”

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