EVENT STRUCTURE METAPHOR inherited
- 1 If you don't have your health, what have you got?
Being Harmed Is Having A Needed Possession Taken Or Losing A needed possession
- 2 The accident took my health
- 3 I lost my job
- 4 His mistake cost me my job
- 5 I paid for his error with my job
Gain In Well-being Is Gain In Possessions
- 6 The idea bought me time
- 7 I gained status from my decision
- 8 The accident gave me a new perspective on life
Restoration Is Getting A Good Thing In Compensation
Note: accounting balance of good and bad effects. Thus in a sentencelike "Her sympathy compensated him for his injuries", he not onlyreceives her sympathy to balance his injuries, but (as "for"indicates) he receives her sympathy in exchange for his loss.
Note: CAUSAL COMMERCE) and HARM IS HAVING A HARMFUL POSSESSION (which includesnotions of CAUSAL TRANSFER) is still unclear.
Alan Schwartz, Jane Espenson