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Target Role: quantity_scale

Source Role: verticality_scale

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Current Metaphor: QUANTITY IS VERTICALITY

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Target Entailment: greater quantities

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Type of Inferential Structure: aligned scales

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Text: The number of books printed each year keeps going up.


Provenance: Metaphors We Live By (15)

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Text: His income fell last year.


Provenance: Metaphors We Live By (15-16)

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Entailmentgreater quantities (Higher point(s) along a vertical scale, aligned scales, MORE IS UP) + and lesser quantities (Lower point(s) along a vertical scale, aligned scales, LESS IS DOWN) +
ExampleEnglish (The number of books printed each year keeps going up., ?, ?, Metaphors We Live By (15), ?, ?, ?) + and English (His income fell last year., ?, ?, Metaphors We Live By (15-16), ?, ?, ?) +
Has source frameFrame:Verticality +
Has target frameFrame:Quantity +
Mappingquantity_scale (verticality_scale, ?) + and measure_of_quantity (scalar_position, ?) +
Metaphor.AliasQUANTITY IS VERTICALITY (?) +, MORE IS UP (Metaphors We Live By) + and QUANTITY IS VERTICAL ELEVATION (Grady (1998)) +
Metaphor.Experiential basisIf you add more of a substance or of physical objects to a container or pile, the level goes up. +
Metaphor.Investigated forEnglish +
Metaphor.Source frameFrame:Verticality +
Metaphor.Target frameFrame:Quantity +
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Related metaphormakes use of (CHANGE OF STATE IS CHANGE OF LOCATION, Increase and decrease of quantity is upwards and downwards movement.) +
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