摘要：Fictive motion is a phenomenon whereby linguistic elements describing motion are used to depict static situations. As a result, static and dynamic situations may be expressed alike. However, it has been arguedthat the encoding of fictive motion differs from that of actual motion in several aspects; the most significant difference is said to be related to the encoding of space which in fictive motion sentences is more restricted than in actual motion sentences (Matsumoto 1996a, 1996b; Matlock 2004a; Ruppenhofer 2006). The current corpus-based study has comparedEstonian fictive and actual motion sentences containing the verbs viima 'take, lead', minema 'go', suunduma 'head', t.usma 'rise', p鲻rama 'turn', ületama 'cross', kulgema 'run, move forward', and looklema 'wind', and focusing on how these sentences encode space. The results of the study showed that the presence of a locative expression is rather verb-specific, although slightly dependent on the type of construction (i.e., fictive or actual motion construction). If locative expression occurred the main influencer of the choice of spatial relation was the type of the verb: Path verbs incorporating the meaning of direction (i.e., viima 'take, lead', minema 'go', suunduma 'head', t.usma 'rise', p鲻rama 'turn') tended to be used together with elements referring to the direction or goal, whereas manner of motion verbs (i.e., kulgema 'run, move forward', looklema 'wind') and the verb referring to the trajectory of the motion (i.e., ületama 'cross') mostly occurred together with elements expressing the location or trajectory. Given this, the consistent windowing hypothesis is proposed
