Languages tend to extend the use of verbs indicating deictic motion (i.e. motion towards or away from the deictic center) for many kinds of metaphorical and grammatical purposes. This is another manifestation of the nature of grammatical structure as determined by the choices and viewpoints of a human conceptualizer. Well-known examples include the development of verbs meaning 'come' or (go) (for an overview, see Wilkins and Hill 1995) into expressions of future and abstract change, e.g. 'It is going to rain; The patient went crazy ~ came conscious; The milk is about to go sour;' (cf. Langacker 1990: 155-156). In our paper we study the Finnish verbs 'tulla' (come) and 'menn' (go) in their abstract change-of-state and more grammaticalized usages. In their usage as indicators of a change they follow a semantic pattern where a positive change is motion towards the deictic center and a negative change motion away from the deictic center (Onikki-Rantajsk 2001: 207). (Tuomas Huumo and Jari Sivonen)