[...] fields: abstract domains that can be described using the set of thematic relations introduced for verbs of motion and location on analogy to the domain of physical motion and location [...]. This idea is most clearly articulated by Jackendoff [Jackendoff, R. S., 1983, "Semantics and Cognition", MIT Press, Cambridge] as the Themathic Relations Hypothesis. In any semantic field of [EVENTS] and [STATES], the principal event-, state-, path-, and place-functions are a subset of those used for the analysis of spatial location and motion. Fields differ in only three possible ways: a. what sorts of entities may appear as theme; b. what sorts of entities may appear as reference objects; c. what kind of relation assumes the role played by location in the field of spatial expressions. [Jackendoff, R. S., 1983, "Semantics and Cognition", MIT Press, Cambridge].
- Levin (2004), Pag. 327