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The purpose of this paper is to give a new account for what principles govern the mapping of arguments of a verb onto grammatical functions. Some previous approaches claim that arguments can be mapped on grammatical functions based on thematic or actor/undergoer hierarchies. Recent studies on this issue propose an account of argument selection that does away with intermediary mechanisms such as thematic or actor/undergoer hierarchies. Some problems, however, remain associated with a set of stative verbs such as ‘border, follow and precede.’ The present study argues in favor of argument selection without using thematic or actor/undergoer hierarchies and proposes ‘the principle of argument selection based on metaphorical extension’ to account for the problematic stative verbs.