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Table 2: A part of the aqua-motion domain in Russian, Swedish, 
and Dutch. 
Lang
uage 
Agent-driven, active motion: type of figure 
Passive location 
/motion 
Motion 
of 
water 
Ani
mate 
entiti
es 
Sailing 
boats 
Rowing 
boats 
Canoes 
Other 
vessels 
Station
ary 
or 
neutral 
motion 
Motion 
out of 
control 
Swed
ish 
simm
a 
segla 
ro 
paddla 
(no 
specific 
acquam
otion 
verbs) 
flyta 
driva 
flyta, 
rinna 
Dutc
h 
zwe
mme
n 
zeilen 
roeien 
paddelen
drijven 
stromen 
varen 
Russi
an 
плыть / плавать 
течь, 
литься 
(плыть / 
плавать 
под 
парусами) 
грести 
нестись 
As these examples show, languages differ considerably as to how many 
different lexemes they have for talking about comparable domains and how 
exactly these words partition the domains. It is, therefore, reasonable to ask 
whether there is any systematicity underlying the obvious cross-linguistic 
variation. Whatever the answer is, it requires explanation. 
Only a handful of conceptual domains typically encoded by words 
(rather than by grammatical means) have been subject to systematic cross-

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linguistic research on their semantic categorization, primarily 
colour, body, 
kinship, perception, motion, events of breaking and cutting, dimension.
The 
list can be made slightly longer, if we include words and expressions with 
more grammatical meanings, such as 
indefinite pronouns
, various 
quantifiers
, 
interrogatives
, 
phrasal adverbials
and
spatial adpositions
.