A nominal bears the locative role if it serves to express the °ground place in a description of the °location of an object.
figure–ground spatial relation (a.k.a. locative relation) (SEM) = a spatial relation that holds between two objects such that the ground object functions as a reference point for locating the figure. Example: the bicycle in the garage is a locative modification construction that expresses a figure–ground spatial relation between the bicycle and the garage. (Sections 4.1.4, 10.4.1)