Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Preface V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Contributors IX
5. Introduction 1
6. Markedness theory - the first 150 years 11
7. Defining markedness 47
8. Markedness and linguistic change 67
9. Markedness, sound change and linguistic reconstruction 87
10. Markedness and naturalness. 1. Thoughts about markedness and normalcy/naturalness 103
11. Markedness and naturalness. 2. Markedness and naturalness in phonology; the case of natural phonology 111
12. Towards a theory of semantic markedness 121
13. Internationalisms: marked or unmarked 139
14. Markedness, productivity and naturalness in L2 learner lexis 151
15. Markedness and grammaticalization 175
16. On the assessment of the markedness status of the exponents of a grammatical category 191
17. Markedness and the category of case in Polish 207
18. Inflectional class markedness 227
19. On the distinction marked/unmarked and primary/secondary in a linguistic description 249
20. Markedness and the grammar of INFL and verb in English 265
21. The marked-unmarked distinction in the grammar of the German ergative verb 291
22. Transitivity and markedness: the antipassive in accusative languages 309
23. Markedness and clause structure 333
24. On the markedness of 'narrative temporal clauses' 359
25. Author Index 373
26. Language Index 377
27. Subject Index 379