In this chapter, I introduce the four types of category path: static, dynamic, oriented, and projected, while characterizing them for the interpretation of path-related information in language. Static paths are finite paths with two endpoints, but neither of the endpoints is identified intrinsically as the start or the end of a path. Dynamic paths are trajectories caused by motions. Oriented paths are simply directed to some goals and may not reach the goals. Projected paths are virtual or intended, which are not actually traversed but devised in the mind of a human or rational agent. To discuss their characteristic features in formal terms, I introduce Pustejovsky and Yocum’s (2013) axioms on motions and derive a corollary based on them. This corollary relates a mover to an event-path. I then show how the movement link (moveLink) is reformulated to link a mover to a motion-triggered event-path with the relation traverses. I also analyze the notions of orientation and projection with respect to the frames of reference, either absolute, relative, or intrinsic, while showing how these frames apply to the annotation and interpretation of oriented or projected paths.

This chapter works toward the specification of a dynamic annotation scheme, called dSpace. It extends the scope of ISO-Space to the domains of space and time over motions by being amalgamated with ISO-TimeML. In dSpace, various types of temporal relations interact with spatial relations. The temporal dimension characterizes various types of paths and motions anchored to each location on the paths; dSpace also generalizes the notion of paths by classifying them into four types: static, dynamic, projected, and oriented, while introducing a relational link, called pathLink, over paths with various relation types such as meet and deviate.