The current study analyzes the phrase “cut in/into pieces” from cognitive semantics and pragmatics perspectives. The literature review revealed that the usage of in indicating resultative states can be traced to the usage in Old English. To check the actual usage of the phrase, the current study conducted the investigation using the COHA. The results show that the concerned usage of in is being replaced by into, which can denote a resultative state of Trajectors without any pragmatic or encyclopedic information
