This paper presents classical maps as accounts of both the synchronic polysemy of constructions and of their gradual semantic developments. This presentation is set against the background of a critique of the usefulness of classical semantic maps, voiced by the proponents of a newer kind of map, a statistical one. The paper reviews the debate, elaborating on points made before and introducing new ones. The new ones concern the issues of the complexity of semantic maps and of the nature of the connections between map points. Illustrations are drawn from the areas of indefinite and impersonal pronouns, modal expressions and constructions of additive scalarity (of the type expressed by English even).
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2023. Hjelmslev, a forerunner of the semantic maps method in linguistic typology?. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 55:1 ► pp. 93 ff.
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2022. On two mathematical representations for “semantic maps”. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 41:1 ► pp. 67 ff.
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2022. New avenues and challenges in semantic map research (with a case study in the semantic field of emotions). Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 41:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
Inglese, Guglielmo
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Inglese, Guglielmo
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Levshina, Natalia
2022. Semantic maps of causation: New hybrid approaches based on corpora and grammar descriptions. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 41:1 ► pp. 179 ff.
Luraghi, Silvia, Chiara Naccarato & Erica Pinelli
2020. The u+gen construction in Modern Standard Russian. Cognitive Linguistics 31:1 ► pp. 149 ff.
2017. Instrumental semantic map in Western Iranian languages. STUF - Language Typology and Universals 70:4 ► pp. 579 ff.
Nikitina, Tatiana
2022. Building semantic maps for closely related languages: Words for ‘grain’ and their kin in South Mande. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 41:1 ► pp. 207 ff.
van der Auwera, Johan
2023. Mixtec negative existential cycles, standard negation and negative indefiniteness. Lingua 292 ► pp. 103528 ff.
van der Klis, Martijn & Jos Tellings
2022. Generating semantic maps through multidimensional scaling: linguistic applications and theory. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 18:3 ► pp. 627 ff.
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