There are various meanings on the serial verb constructions in Mandarin and other dialects (or languages), and some of them exist in common. The phenomenon of these different meanings expressed in one identical construction, the serial verb constructions, suggests that the semantic function of a continuum exist not coincidentally or arbitrarily, but with relevance between meanings. How these meanings relate to each other can be determined by the distribution patterns in which different kinds of meanings are represented in a same construction. However, the inherent correlation between several semantic functions of the serial verb construction is difficult to understand on the basis of a single Mandarin and can be analyzed on the basis of a comparative study of various dialects of Chinese or different languages of the world. In this study, through the distribution situation in 38 Chinese dialects, including Mandarin. We intended to establish a conceptual space in which linguistic typological universality was implemented, showing the distance between semantic functions.
These semantic functions related to the serial verb construction in each dialect drawn in the conceptual space existing in a continuous connected zone, through semantic maps, revealing the characteristics of each dialect. As a result some semantic maps projected into the conceptual space derived several implicational universals.