52 Paul Danove however, can require completion by and so govern without ambiguity the relationships among at most three semantic entities. Verbs address this disparity in logical / semantic requirements by assuming a perspective in which the Agent is coincident with either the Source or Goal at the initiation of transference. This permits verbs to omit consideration of the coincident Source or Goal, which may be retrieved as the initial locale of the Agent, and to raise the three remaining semantic entities to the status of required arguments. This study investigates verbs that designate trans- ference to a Goal, in which the Source is omitted and the verbs require completion by an Agent, a Theme and a Goal. The three lexical realizations of the Goal in the study specify the locale of the Theme at the termination of motion in relation to the Goal entity: proximity (πρός, “to” or “toward”), close proximity or contact (dative case, “to”), and contact or penetration (εἰς, “to” or “into”): He sent his slaves to the farmers… (Matt 21,34) ἀπέστειλεν τοὺς δούλους αὐτοῦ πρὸς τοὺς γεωργοὺς… I will give to you the crown of life (Rev 2,10) δώσω σοι τὸν στέφανον τῆς ζωῆς He threw himself into the sea (John 21,7) ἔβαλεν ἑαυτὸν εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν. Although the lexical realization of the Goal constrains the interpreta- tion of the locale toward which the Theme moves, it does not specify whether the final locale of the Theme is transitory or durative. In order to introduce the concept of duration, verbs re-conceptualize the event of transference in such a manner that the Goal becomes the entity in rela- tion to which the locale of the Theme is fixed or stable at the termination of transference. In this re-conceptualization, the Goal entity functions as a semantic Locative (the literal or figurative place in which an entity is situated). Most frequently, the Locative is realized by an ἐν (in / on) prepositional phrase: They placed it [the body of John the Baptist] in a tomb (Mark 6,29) ἔθηκαν αὐτὸ ἐν μνημείῳ. This study investigates the 906 NT occurrences of verbs of transfer- ence with a required dative case, εἰς, or πρός complement. The study also requires a consideration of the semantic entities designated by these complements and their associated Theme complements. This presents a