摘要：This article deals with some language-specific differences in Finnish and Swedish when
expressing spatial causation. The focus is on the Finnish causative motion verbs
piilottaa (!(R)hide!ˉ) anhakea (!(R)fetch!ˉ), which refer to a causation of spatial events: hidin
or fetching causes something (or someone) to move along a path in direction to or from
some place. Syntactic-semantic differences between the languages are explained as
conceptual phenomena. The formal lexical descriptions made are therefore based on the
framework of conceptual semantics. In Finnish the causative motion verbs piilottaa and
hakea are both conceptualized as a path of the Theme!ˉs movement, whereas the
Swedish counterparts g?mma and h?mta are conceptualized as a location of the Theme
after
(g?mma) respectively before (h?mta) its movement. Through the theory of
temporal structure, the language-specific differences can be explained through temporal
relations within conceptual structure.
