The paper examines the lexical semantics and the patterns of encoding the goal and source of motion with the main Albanian motion verbs, shkoj ‘go’ and vij ‘come’. The research was based on the Albanian National Corpus (ANC) using approaches applied in linguistic typology and in works on the grammatical and lexical semantics of motion verbs.

The verbs shkoj and vij are analyzed in terms of their orientation on the goal or source of motion (goal-oriented, source-oriented) and with the consideration of the general typological tendency to explicitly fill the goal valency, known as goal-bias. The ways of filling in the goal and source valencies of these verbs are considered both in combinations with prepositional constructions expressing the different components of path (in particular, with the most frequent spatial prepositions of the Albanian language: nga ‘from; to’, te(k) ‘to’, and në ‘in’) and in constructions without the corresponding arguments at the surface level. Special attention is paid to the constructions with the verbs shkoj / ​vij and the preposition nga, which can encode both the goal and the source of motion (source / goal ambuguity). In this part of the study, the use of the verbs shkoj and vij is described considering the position of the speaker / ​observer in the situation.