Experiential metaphors in Latin: feelings were containers, movements and things possessed

This paper is concerned with three metaphorical schemas frequently used in Latin to encode experiential situations: EXPERIENCES ARE THINGS POSSESSED, STATES ARE CONTAIN- ERS, and EVENTS ARE MOVEMENTS. Besides describing these metaphorical mappings, this paper also provides corpus-based evidence for conceiving of metaphorical constructions not as sporadic forms motivated by communicative demands but rather as consistent parts of semantically-related networks of concepts. Therefore, one of the results of the present work is a description of the regularities and extensions, as well as the relative frequency and the diachronic productivity, of different metaphorical options in Latin, together with some comparison with parallel structures in other Indo-European languages.