Sentence examples for system of markedness from inspiring English sources
It's the Indo-European system of markedness.
The notion of markedness was first developed in Prague school phonology but was subsequently extended to morphology and syntax.
The words "dog" and "bitch" provide examples of markedness of this kind on the level of vocabulary.
There is also a more abstract sense of markedness, which is independent of the presence or absence of an overt feature or affix.
The principle of markedness, understood in this more general or more abstract sense, came to be quite widely accepted by linguists of many different schools, and it was applied at all levels of linguistic analysis.
Following Halliday's definition of Theme and his categorization of markedness, this study considers Arabic news headlines as marked thematic structures.
We recorded commonly used two-phrase utterances consisting of Japanese adjective and adverb phrases expressing different degree of markedness under designed conversational situations, and compared their F0 characteristics.
The degree of markedness expressed by a fronted element is measured by its mobility, i.e. the more mobile an element is, the less marked it will be in thematic position (Baker 1992).
See also system of equations.
