LOS VERBOS DEÍCTICOS DE MOVIMIENTO EN ITALIANO: USOS METONÍMICOS, IMAGINARIOS Y ABSTRACTOS.

The metaphorization of motion verbs is a very common phenomenon at the interlinguistic level. In this paper, we examine the metaphorical uses of the Italian movement deictic verbs andare and venire. We delineate a semantic network to recognize the different processes of abstraction that have led to the evolution of the basic literal meaning of 'spatial displacement'. Our analysis evidences the relationships between the deictic and the actional features of the basic meaning of these verbs and their numerous metaphorical and metonymic ramifications. For its classification we have used the interpretive instruments, models and categories of Cognitive Linguistics (moving world, moving ego, subjectivization, etc.). After an introduction of the theoretical assumptions of our investigation, we analyze a corpus of examples from several sources: the Italian edition of A streetcar named desire by T. Williams (Williams, 1963), the corpus of the spoken Italian LIP (De Mauro, Mancini, Vedovelli, Voghera, 1993) and several Italian websites consulted via Google. These examples are part of a broader corpus that has been compiled for the contrastive study of the deictic motion verbs in Italian and Spanish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]