Cifuentes (1996, 2004) also examines to what extent the directionality difference has an impact on the semantics of the Ground and, more particularly, on its dimension. On the one hand, the often internally directed orientation found with would make this V particularly suitable meter with large-sized Grounds (e.g. a house). on the other hand, would be less inclined to Poner, combine with a Ground of large dimensions: it expresses a simple positioning event, be it vertical, horizontal or interior. In contrast, according to Cifuentes (1996: 140–141) smaller-sized Grounds (e.g. an eye) combine both with and poner meter. In order to empirically verify this hypothesis, all instances of and are tagged as to poner meter the dimension of their Ground for the variable Dimension_Ground. The human body is taken as a reference point: human beings and every entity with the same size or larger than the human body are considered to be Grounds (e.g. geographical places, streets, buildings, cars and large rooms, as well as clearly spacious areas such as the sea). In contrast, entities with a smaller dimension compared to the human body (e.g. bags, birdcages, body parts) are marked as small Grounds. A third category (not is provided for events in which the dimension of the applicable) Ground is hard to classify in terms of large or small, i.e. metaphorical placements with a abstract Ground (e.g. events where the Ground is expressed by an interrogative troubles), pronoun (e.g. an adverb (e.g. or a semantically vague location place (e.g. where?), here), On this basis, the following hypothesis is raised: location). occurs with both large-sized and small-sized Grounds, whereas Hypothesis (2): meter poner preferably combines with small-sized Grounds. In search of other factors of influence 3.2 Cifuentes (1996, 2004) mainly examined occurrences of and in their prototypical meter poner locative meaning, that is, when referring to a literal non-reflexive placement event including a human instigator and an inanimate and concrete Figure and Ground. However, putting events can deviate from this basic definition in numerous ways. It is thus interesting to investigate to what
Cifuentes (1996, 2004) also examines to what extent the directionality difference has an impact on the semantics of the Ground and, more particularly, on its dimension. On the one hand, the often internally directed orientation found with meter would make this V particularly suitable with large-sized Grounds (e.g. a house). Poner, on the other hand, would be less inclined to combine with a Ground of large dimensions: it expresses a simple positioning event, be it vertical, horizontal or interior. In contrast, according to Cifuentes (1996: 140–141) smaller-sized Grounds (e.g. an eye) combine both with poner and meter. In order to empirically verify this hypothesis, all instances of poner and meter are tagged as to the dimension of their Ground for the variable Dimension_Ground. The human body is taken as a reference point: human beings and every entity with the same size or larger than the human body are considered to be large Grounds (e.g. geographical places, streets, buildings, cars and rooms, as well as clearly spacious areas such as the sea). In contrast, entities with a smaller dimension compared to the human body (e.g. bags, birdcages, body parts) are marked as small Grounds. A third category (not applicable) is provided for events in which the dimension of the Ground is hard to classify in terms of large or small, i.e. metaphorical placements with a abstract Ground (e.g. troubles), events where the Ground is expressed by an interrogative pronoun (e.g. where?), an adverb (e.g. here), or a semantically vague location place (e.g. location). On this basis, the following hypothesis is raised: Hypothesis (2): meter occurs with both large-sized and small-sized Grounds, whereas poner preferably combines with small-sized Grounds. 3.2 In search of other factors of influence Cifuentes (1996, 2004) mainly examined occurrences of meter and poner in their prototypical locative meaning, that is, when referring to a literal non-reflexive placement event including a human instigator and an inanimate and concrete Figure and Ground. However, putting events can deviate from this basic definition in numerous ways. It is thus interesting to investigate to what
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