Non-gradable_proximity

A Figure is characterized as near the Ground, according to some contextually given scale. Many lexical units of this frame additionally specify in which direction relative to the Ground one can find the Figure (under.prep, north.adv), or directions from the Ground from which the Figure is excluded (e.g. beside.prep excludes the vertical and front/back axes); for specifications of direction, see the semantic types attached to the lexcial units. Members of this frame that make reference to an absolute, earth-based grid (e.g. north, south, etc.) imply a geographic scale of proximity, and so are frequently not paraphrasable as "near". She put her shoes under the table . Michael Jackson was right next to me ! Down by his left foot was a little grenade . The subset of LUs that inherently pick out a particular direction (e.g. north, behind) may occur with a specification of a Distance in that direction from a Ground at which the Figure may be found, while LUs that pick out two or more directions of relevance from a Ground (e.g. beside) can only characterize the general accessibility of the Figure relative to the Ground. 30 miles north right beside my leg This frame is intended to cover a limited set of productive metaphor cases in which allegiance is expressed as a Devotee standing to one side or behind an Allegiance_holder: I stand beside what I said to him . They will stand right next to me in the fight against homophobia . This frame is not intended for metaphorical cases of quantity specification: There was above 500 kg of cocaine in the shipment . This frame does not cover the multitude of other metaphorical cases like "next to impossible", "under consideration", "under his rule", "beside himself", "beside the point".