denote a place where an event take place without location change [PPs with at, on, in, in front of, above] The paper will show that the above semantic typology forms a coherent hierarchy among the different locative types, and further claims that the semantic hierarchy is closely linked to the syntactic hierarchy of the locatives.
the closer semantically is a locative to an event of a 1 Nam (1995) calls them "symmetric" since the relation between source and goal is symmetric with respect to the reference object (landmark), thus symmetric locatives do not specify an inherent direction between the two regions.