Distance

This FE identifies the Distance between the Figure and the Ground. This FE requires an image schema with a vector that extends from the Ground, or a subpart of the Ground, in some direction, and the Distance is measured along this vector from the Ground to the profiled region. The climbers are now 2000 feet above the base camp. Deep under the earth lurk dark things. In cases where the target does not introduce such an image schema, Distance should be annotated as part of the Direction FE that introduces such a vector. She found a phone 200 feet up on the radio tower. Note that a number of frequent adverbial targets, e.g. up.adv and down.adv, identify the Ground, with the location of an implicit viewer, so Distance is effectively measured from the viewpoint location in these cases. We were already nearly 1000 meters down.