Markedness in synchrony and diachrony

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Preface Contributors Introduction Markedness Theory – the First 150 Years Defining Markedness Markedness and Linguistic Change Markedness, Sound Change and Linguistic Reconstruction Markedness and Naturalness 1. Thoughts about markedness and normalcy/naturalness 2. Markedness and naturalness in phonology; the case of natural phonology Towards a Theory of Semantic Markedness Internationalisms: Marked or Unmarked Markedness, Productivity and Naturalness in L2 Learner Lexis Markedness and Grammaticalization On the Assessment of the Markedness Status of the exponents of a Grammatical Category Markedness and the Category of Case in Polish Inflectional Class Markedness On the Distinction Marked/Unmarked and Primary/Secondary in a Linguistic Description Markedness and the Grammar of INFL and Verb in English The Marked-Unmarked Distinction in the Grammar of the German Ergative Verb Transitivity and Markedness: the Antipassive in Accusative Languages Markedness and Clause Structure On the Markedness of “Narrative Temporal Clauses” Author Index Language Index Subject Index