Verbal and satellite frames

In linguistics, verbal and satellite frames are ways of expressing the path or mode of movement, respectively. Verbal framework languages, such as romances, often use verbs that indicate the path, such as entering, exiting, ascending, descending and crossing. Otherwise, satellite languages, for example Germanic languages, prefer verbs such as tiptoe and waltz, relegating the path's function to prepositions such as up, into and out of.

The classification of languages ​​as verbal or satellite is not definitive. In English there are trail verbs like enter and exit, which come from Latin. The Chinese is frame equipolente, that is, the verbs express the path and the mode at the same time.

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