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Facts about "QUANTITY IS VERTICALITY"
Entailment | greater 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) + |
Example | English (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 frame | Frame:Verticality + |
Has target frame | Frame:Quantity + |
Mapping | quantity_scale (verticality_scale, ?) + and measure_of_quantity (scalar_position, ?) + |
Metaphor.Alias | QUANTITY IS VERTICALITY (?) +, MORE IS UP (Metaphors We Live By) + and QUANTITY IS VERTICAL ELEVATION (Grady (1998)) + |
Metaphor.Experiential basis | If you add more of a substance or of physical objects to a container or pile, the level goes up. + |
Metaphor.Investigated for | English + |
Metaphor.Source frame | Frame:Verticality + |
Metaphor.Target frame | Frame:Quantity + |
Metaphor.Type | Primary + |
Related metaphor | makes use of (CHANGE OF STATE IS CHANGE OF LOCATION, Increase and decrease of quantity is upwards and downwards movement.) + |
Has subobject "Has subobject" is a predefined property representing a container construct that allows to accumulate property-value assignments similar to that of a normal wiki page. | Metaphor:QUANTITY IS VERTICALITY#Is_example_of + |