Spatiality and metaphor are discussed and lexical and poetic metaphors are distinguished to prepare a framework for analyzing Russian predicative structures termed "metaphorically spatial situations" as specific roles of locative, ablative, allative, and prolative with special attention to the relationship between the localizing and localized elements in such predicates. (Copyright 1997, Sociological Abstracts, Inc., all rights reserved.) (Z. Dubiel in LLBA 1997, vol. 31, n. 4)