In cognitive grammar, a linguistically encoded relationship between two or more participants in a given scene. For instance, in an utterance such as: Max kicked the ball, there is a profiled relationship holding between the participants encoded by the expressions Max and the ball. In a profiled relationship there is a conceptual asymmetry between a focal participant, the trajector and a secondary participant, the landmark. This distinction between trajector and landmark in linguistic expressions is an instance of the more general perceptual and attentional phenomenon of figure-ground organization. In the utterance above, Max constitutes the trajector while the ball constitutes the landmark.