Stationary circumstances are systematically and extensively conceptualized as moving with linguistic expressions used to refer to actual motion. This is called subjective or fictive motion in the literature. Research has been done on subjective/fictive motion expressions but most of them have focused on descriptions of different types of fictive motion. The purpose of this paper is to provide a unified account of conceptualization of different types of fictive motion in terms of Figure and Ground organization. In this study, three representative types of fictive motion are considered : coextensiveness, relative motion, and change of state.

• Sungchool Im(Kyungpook National University)