2015 Volume 2015 Issue 262 Pages 168-186
This research applies Semantic Map Theory to draw the semantic map of the connections between interrogative pronouns. First, I delineate the relationships between the terms in the two categories of my study—between space, identification, person; and between time, classification, and object. Next, I show how the two categories create a discrete conceptual spaces that are internal to the vocabulary structures of Chinese dialects. We draw the semantic map to categorize them into two types. Following this, we elaborate and extend Lushuxiang’s (1985) thesis on the difference in word formation in dialects.
