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The article presents the author's commentary on the article "Building a Semantic Map: Top-Down versus Bottom-up Approaches," by Ferdinand de Haan. The author says de Haan, like Kasper Boye, addresses the relationship between epistemic modality and evidentiality, although Haan accepts and Boye rejects the notion of overlap between the two codings as proposed by van der Auwera and Plungian. The author says his concern is that the analysis made by de Haan may become distorted if only a few markers in a specific area are analyzed in isolation.

The article presents the author's commentary on the article "Analyzing Semantic Maps: A Multifactorial Approach," by Andrej L. Malchukov. The author basically summarizes Malchukov's argument as he finds his fellow linguist's approach to semantic maps to be very close to his own. Among the points he cites of what the article observes are the advantages of classical maps including their ability to capture semantic connections between individual categories, and their disadvantages such as their incapability of representing frequency.

The article presents the author's response to the commentary "The Best of Two Maps," by Sander Lestrade. The author agrees with the main point that Lestrade makes, but disagrees with him in his claim that change-over-time information is only instructive when combined with statistical evaluation of the concurrent patterns it should explain, a claim which the author finds to be too strong. He says that using quantity as a final criterion does not appeal to him, but that this may in the end be a question of values.