Re: Adposition or Case for Ground of Motion

A good example of how case and meanings work is Finnish.  Since it
uses case endings, you can see the background/subject relationship
works.  If you see "talossa", you know it will be in a house.  That
might not be the main point, but that sets talo/house as the ground
for this place.

On 9/19/05, John Quijada <jq_ithkuil@...> wrote:
> 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.
>