The semantic map is one of the most effective tools in linguistic typology to study the association
patterns between multifunctional grammatical forms and grammatical meanings, and it can clearly and intuitively
show the commonalities and differences among different languages in the form of “Maps”. We focus on the
semantic distribution and syntactic representation of the explicit causative constructions in the eight languages
of the five major language families. Through systematic contrast analysis and semantic map model, this paper
demonstrates the cognitive representation of the rich semantic features that make up this concept in different
languages.