Abstract
This paper employs the Semantic Map Model, a new tool for typological research, to study functions in the spatial domain and related domains. It takes a bottom-up approach, which starts with a limited number of dialects spoken in the single Chinese province of Hunan, and progressively moves on to include more data from other dialects of Chinese. It eventually establishes a map that can account for multifunctional patterns of relevant grams in the Chinese dataset. One highlight of this study is the Multi-layer Semantic Map Model, a methodological innovation to deal with polygrammaticalization.
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