Teaching & Learning Guide for: The semantic map model

The semantic map model is relatively new in linguistic research, but it has been used intensively during the past three decades for studying a variety of cross‐linguistic and language‐specific questions. This method enables the capturing of regular patterns of semantic structure based on similarities of form‐meaning correspondence across languages. It has been fruitfully applied to the study of a variety of topics in linguistic typology, semantics, and historical linguistics and plays a prominent role in modern linguistic theory. This teaching and learning guide aims to provide readers with (a) key relevant works in the field, (b) additional information about online electronic resources and software solutions for graph visualization, and (c) material that can be used in order to introduce the semantic map model and its applications in the context of courses on linguistic typology, historical linguistics, and computational linguistics. Four mod- ules are suggested for each course (two shared introductory modules and two specific modules). Alternatively, the eight modules can be clustered in the framework of a single seminar on semantic maps.