摘要：In his comment on my paper .Semantic map geometry: two approaches., Michael Cysouw adds a few useful qualifications to the distinction that I made between matrix-driven and space-driven approaches to semantic maps. Even though there is a multitude of approaches, each of them with their individual advantages and disadvantages, I would like to maintain that the distinction that I made in my paper is valid and important. I assume with Cysouw that the central question in the discussion is how to determine the relations between the points in a semantic space, not the points themselves, and I agree with him that this is a far-from-simple methodological distinction. In this debate, we share the assumption that points are somehow given. My discussion of space-based and matrix-based methods also deals with establishing the way a given set of "meanings" of some sort is structured by a relation between the points
