An interest in the notions of space and motion correlated with language and human cognition is at the basis of this research in the field of the English lexical semantics. More specifically, this talk will focus upon the metaphorical extension of motion verbs in their combinatorial semantics with nouns referring to mental activities. I propose to label this pattern of events "metaphictive motion events" that, in my view, allow us to investigate the relationship between metaphoricity and fictivity. The theoretical framework of Cognitive Semantics, as proposed under the rubric of 'General Fictivity' by Len Talmy, seemed to provide the tools for the analysis of such events. Being part of cognition, instances of language will be analyzed in relation to the Talmian comprehensive category of ception, the "overlapping systems model" that, specifically intended to overcome the distinction between perception and cognition, provides a set of gradient parameters. Such parameters extend continuously through the larger domain, and account for both veridical and nonveridical spatial phenomena. Although metaphictive motion events accommodate at the low end of the Palpability gradient parameter, the image-schematic thinking allows us to map them onto high palpable, factive events, and to accommodate them along a cline of metaphictivity, thus generating different degrees of cognitive complexity. (Annalisa Baicchi)