Beja (North-Cushitic, Afroasiatic) is, according to Talmy's (1985, 1991) classification, a verb-framed language, but with many more manner verbs (sometimes also encoding the cause of motion) than predicted by the typology (22 identified to date, e.g. ʔil 'to walk rapidly and constantly like a race camel', ʃikʷib 'to walk rapidly and heavily like a load camel', maʈʔeːk 'to walk legs apart because of a wound'), as well as a lexicon encoding time in addition to movement (e.g. himnaj 'leave in the afternoon', libas 'leave at night'; as in Arabic, see Naïm & Pilot-Raichoor 2016). Beja has no category of 'motion cum purpose', nor of 'associated motion' per se (Guillaume 2006), but a directional system that encodes trajectory by means of auxiliaries and secondary predicates of stative meaning. They are used to express movements on the vertical axis (ex. 1-4), as well as postures (ex. 5). A deictic-based micro-system centred on ego supplements all these constructions. It opposes a verbal lexeme, jhak 'to get up far from the speaker', to a complex predicate, ʔasi sʔa 'to get up close to the speaker' (lit. to be up sit down). These systems show various degrees of grammaticalization (cp. ex. 6-9). 'After the container has come down…' (BEJ_MV_NARR_16_Prophet_Fox_320) (2) ʔas-ti far-iːni be_up-CVB.GNRL jump-IPFV.3SG.M 'He jumps up.' (BEJ_MV_NARR_14_sijadok_284) (3) ʔas-ti i-ngiːd be_up-CVB.GNRL 3SG.M-throw\IPFV 'He throws it up.' (BEJ_MV_NARR_16_Prophet_Fox_126) (4) eːn j=ʔaji=eː ʔas-ti PROX.PL.M.ACC DEF.M=hand=POSS.1PL.ACC be_up-CVB.GNRL ʔabik-tiːt take-CVB.SEQ 'After I had turned my palms up…' (BEJ_MV_NARR_08_drunkard_092)