The proposal developed in the work of Gruber [Gruber,J. S., 1965, "Studies in Lexical Relations", MIT Cambridge] and extended by Jackendoff [Jackendoff, R. S., 1972, "Semantic Interpretation in Generative Grammar", MIT Press, Cambridge; 1976, "Toward an Explanatory Semantic Representation", in "Linguistic Inquiry" 7, pp. 89-150; 1983,"Semantics and Cognition", MIT Press, Cambridge] is that verbs of change of possession describe a change of position in an abstract space, the "possessional field".
- Levin (2004), a pag.310