Abstract
The aim of the study is to identify, based on motion verbs, the linguocognitive mechanism of scenario metonymy, the conditions of its realization in discourse, the potential of this metonymic model in representing human activities, and the trends of its development. The scientific novelty of the work lies in establishing, justifying, and describing the systematic nature of the scenario metonymy distinguished for the first time using motion verbs, which most consistently develops this type of secondary meaning. By conducting an analysis of typical utterances, the study is the first to determine the mechanism of forming metonymically derived meanings from verbs with the initial semantics of motion. This mechanism involves the following: in speech, these verbs become a way to denote complex, multi-act scenario-based events, whether they are everyday, singular occurrences, or significant periods of human activities. The metonymic representation of the most common multi-act events in speech is demonstrated. Additionally, the main constructions embodying the semantics of scenario metonymy, the characteristics of their lexical content, the systematic expansion of construction composition and the collocability of motion verbs within these constructions are identified for the first time.
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