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iewed mainly from the perspective ofcognitive linguistics.

2.1 Theoretical Studies
In nature, the fictive motion event is about how language structures space.Specifically, it is about how language structures the static spatial relations in terms ofmotion. In 1983, the article How Language Structures Space was published by Talmy.In this article, Talmy proposes that schematization plays an important role in thelinguistically spatial description. Since then, a lot of researchers have been involved inthe study of fictive motion, of whom, Talmy, Langacker and Fauconnier are the greatcontributors in its theoretical studies.In Talmy’s views, language can provide a schematic system for representingnon-veridical things that, as a matter of fact, don’t happen. To have an immediatesense of the matter, a linguistic example is provided here: This fence goes from theplateau down into the valley (Talmy, 2000a, p.99). This example shows that languagedepicts motion with non-motion. In this example, according to the general knowledge,reasoning and general beliefs, the fence is stationary, not moving at all, while theliteral meaning of the sentence indicates that it is moving. Therefore, the literalrepresentation and the representation based on people’s general knowledge seemcontradictory or inconsistent. However, there is no clash between these two discrepantrepresentations of the same entity at all. Regarding the two discrepant representations,Talmy (2000a, p.100-101) characterizes the literal representation, which is the literalreference of the linguistic form to be less veridical as fictive representation and therepresentation based on the belief held by the speakers or hearers to be more veridicalas factive. Hence, there are fictive representation and factive representation for thesame entity, and they are called the fictivity pattern in Talmy’s view (ibid.). In light ofthe fictivity pattern, the more veridical representation could include factivestationariness or factive motion and the less veridical representation includes fictivemotion or fictive stationariness. So the factive stationariness and fictive motion formthe fictivity pattern. Accordingly, fictive motion means that something factivelyrepresented as stationary is nevertheless represented as moving, either in the literalform or in the sensory or visual manner.
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2.2 Studies of Fictive Motion
Chinese researchers are positively engaged in the study of fictive motion fromdifferent angles. After searching the literature, the research perspectives can be mainlyclassified into three categories by and large. They are the typological studies, thecognitive mechanism studies and the semantic components studies. In the followingparts, each of the perspectives will be explained clearly.As was noted in the previous parts, language exhibits a series of categories offictive motion in English language. What about Chinese? Is there any possibility thatall the six types of fictive motion exist in Chinese or just part of them? Regarding tothis question, Chinese researchers have spared no efforts to deal with this. Li (2009)puts that in the Chinese language, there does exist the emanation path, frame-relativepath, advent path, coextension path and the communication path by presentingavailable examples. According to her classification, she is not quite sure whether thepattern path and the access path exist in Chinese language or not. Tao and Mao (201