Re: Adposition or Case for Ground of Motion

You seem to be using the concept of "ground" differently than I've seen in
the literature, e.g., Len Talmy's writings.  "Ground" is usually meant to
refer to the background against which is set the participants and the
movement taking place relative to the perspective of those participants.
Therefore, to my mind, the house in your sentence functions in the
semantic relation of either SOURCE or GOAL, not GROUND.  Consequently,
words such as "from" or "to" and their equivalents in other languages such
as ablative and allative cases would be appropriate as markers for the
SOURCE/GOAL semantic relations.

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