List 2: location verbs

A. On. storage places: ground the planes, beach the boats, land the boat, bench the players, ⁺clothes-rack the hat, ⁺clothes-horse the trousers, ⁺doormat the boots, shelve the books, spool the thread, ⁺rack the plates, ⁺hook the cups. strings: string the beads, spit the chicken, skewer the meat, tender the balloon, leash the dog. lists: list the participants, blacklist the director, ⁺short-list the candidate, ⁺sick-list the patient, ⁺wait-list the traveller, book the flight, log the travel, docket the case, schedule the appointment, slate the speakers, inventory the goods, ⁺front-page the scandal, headline the story, ⁺bulletin the news, ⁺banner the message. visual locations: screen the movie, chart the route, map the area, ⁺blueprint the plans. miscellaneous: land the plane, floor his opponent, stage the play, table the document, ⁺easel the canvases, ⁺sidewalk the merchandise, strand the passengers, ⁺island the travellers, ⁺horse the troops, curb the dog, spot the ball (football), sidetrack the detective, ⁺keyboard a new computer language, shoulder the knapsack, hip one’s opponent (wrestling); (intr.) The bird perched, The boat landed.

A’. Not-on. Tee off the (golf) ball.

B. In. habitat: (tr.) headquarter the troops, bivouac the soldiers, lodge the guests, bed the stones in mortar, field the candidates, jail the prisoner, jug the thief, quod the burglar, cloister the nuns, shelter the fugitives, house the people, stable the horse, ⁺stall the horse, ⁺barn the cows, ⁺shed the cows, kennel the dogs, pen the pigs, ⁺sty the pigs, coop the chickens, cage the tigers, ⁺hive the bees, earth the badger (hunting), ⁺tanker extra fuel [Jack Anderson]; (intr.) ⁺hut, nest, roost, slum, camp, room at the Waldorf, ⁺youth-hostel in Europe, ⁺office in Houston [ad], hole up in the woods, ⁺tidepool in the shallows of the Stanislaus river, ⁺headquarter in San Raphael, ⁺tent along the frontier [Time]. storage places: cellar the wine, ⁺closet the clothes, ⁺cloakroom his briefcase, ⁺cupboard the stores, garage the car, park the car, harbor the boat, berth the boat, drydock the boat, ⁺hangar the airplane, dairy the milk, ⁺silo the corn, corral the horses, pasture the cows, ⁺warehouse the aliens [CBS], pigeonhole the bill, ⁺desk the papers, file the reports, ⁺file-cabinet the letters, ⁺showcase the rings, ⁺billfold the money, pocket the change, ⁺coin-purse the pennies, bank the money, ⁺piggy-bank the nickels, ⁺shrine the relics, ⁺scabbard the sword. containers: pot the begonias, can the fruit, tin the peaches, jug the hare, ⁺creel the trout, sack the potatoes, bag the potatoes, box the apples, ⁺barrel the apples, ⁺case the violin, bottle the wine, ⁺keg the beer, ⁺pouch the tobacco, ⁺flask the whisky, ⁺coffer the jewels, ⁺casket the jewels, ⁺coffin the body, ⁺litter-basket your empties [beer carton], ⁺hole the ball. pictures: picture the man, graph the data, ⁺window the view, film the action, ⁺snapshot his team, photograph the children. miscellaneous: package the books, parcel the presents, book the receipts, dish up the food, brine the pickles, seat the people, corner the mouse, tree the possum, pillory the prisoner, cradle the child, ⁺cache the booty, bed the child, bunk the children down for the night, ⁺porch the newspaper, catalog the pictures, register the guests, palm the card, air the clothes, mothball the sweaters, church the women (after childbirth), mire the horses, ⁺footnote her colleagues, ⁺card the example (write on a card), ⁺minute the decision (put into the minutes), orbit the satellite, sun oneself. [...]

B’. Not in. Mine the gold, quarry the marble, pod the peas, shell the peas.

С. At, to. (tr.) ⁺site the power-plant, ⁺parking-meter the car, ⁺desk oneself [Sunday Times], floor the accelerator, boundary the ball (cricket), dock the boat, station the troops, center the picture, face the enemy; (intr.) the diver surfaced, ⁺his beer brimmed over, the well bottomed out. [...]

For location verbs, the prepositions have dwindled to the simplest three: in, on, and at, with a few examples of not-on and not-in. Tee off the golf ball is classified as not-on, since its parent clause can be said to be The ball is not on the tee. Off marks it as negative, perhaps to contrast it with tee up. The other negative verbs are not marked this way. In any case, negative verbs are rare.

The duration verbs in List 3, like the location verbs, have parent nouns in prepositional phrases:

(5) Julia summered in Paris.

(6) Julia did something to cause it to come about that [Julia was in Paris for a summer].

The parent noun, however, must denote a stretch of time and take a preposition like for. This rules out points of time, like noon and midnight, and qualifications incompatible with the stretch of time, as in *Julia summered for a week in Paris. Although most duration verbs are intransitive, some can be transitive too, as in Washington wintered his troops at Valley Forge.