• I like to sing at the gym/on Main St./in the shower. 001

• The cat is on_top_of/off/beside/near the dog. 002

• There are flowers between/among the trees. 003

• When you drive north, the river is on the right. 004

• I read it in a book/on a website. 005

• the data in the study 033

• The charge is on my credit card. 006

• We met on a trip to Paris. 007

• The Dow is at a new high/20,000. [absolute scalar point value: see discussion at ComparisonRef] 008

• That’s in my price range. 009

The Locus may be a part of another scene argument: part of a figure whose static orientation is described, or a focal part of a ground where contact with the figure occurs:¹

• She was lying on her back. 010

• She kissed me on the cheek. 011

• I want to punch you in the face. 012

Words that incorporate a kind of reference point are Locus even without an overt object:

• The cat is inside the house. 013

• The cat is inside. 014

• All passengers are aboard the ship. 015

• All passengers are aboard. 016

Locus also applies to in, out, off, away, back, etc. when used to describe a location without an overt object:

• The doctor is in/out_of/away_from the office. 017

• The doctor is in/out/away. 018

• They are out to eat. 019

And to around meaning ‘nearby’ or ‘in the area’:

• Will you be around in the afternoon? 020

• She’s the best doctor around! 021

In a phenomenon called fictive motion (Talmy, 1996), dynamic language may be used to describe static scenes. We use construal for these:

• A road runs through my property. (Locus↝Path) 022

• John saw Mary through the window/over the fence.² (Locus↝Path) 023

• The road extends to the river. (Locus↝Goal) 024

• I saw him from the roof. (Locus↝Source) 025

• Protesters were kept/missing from the area. (Locus↝Source) 026

• We live across_from you. (Locus↝Source) 027

• We’re just across the street from_{Locus↝Source} you. (Locus↝Path) 028

Construal is also used for prepositions licensed by scalar adjectives of distance, #029, and prepositions used with a cardinal direction, #031:

• We are quite close to the river. (Locus↝Goal) 029

• We are quite far from the river. (Locus↝Source) 030

• The river is to the north. (Locus↝Goal) [cf. #004] 031

• The river is north of Paris. (Locus↝Source) 032

See also Locus↝Direction for static distance measurements, described under Direction.

Qualitative states are analyzed as Manner↝Locus, as described under Manner.