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Confusingly, '''marked forms''' can refer to '''markedness''' instead | Confusingly, '''marked forms''' can refer to '''markedness''' instead. | ||
'''Markedness''' refers to | '''Markedness''' refers to a comparison linguistic behaviour as being more '''irregular''' than another<!-- (perhaps originating in being 'markedly different'?{{verify}}) -->. | ||
: in a sense of just being more specific | |||
:: e.g. honest (unmarked) vs. dishonest (marked), | |||
: be it in the sense of standing out (somewhat related to the idea of [[idiomacity]]) | |||
:: in the sense that the choice draws attention to itself | |||
: in a sense of one being low-effort | |||
: 'unusual' can be a broad term - you could even argue that one aspect of [[institutionalized]] phrases is that that combination of words appear with markedly (i.e. unusually) high frequency | |||
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In linguistics, it was used e.g. when developing rules to describe various production. | |||
What you would like to see is that such rules primarily produces the regular forms, | |||
probably with a small group of exceptions. | |||
If the rules seem | |||
chances are better than if it's a lot of rules that | |||
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Marking may be purely semantic, | |||
or may be realized as extra morphology. | |||
The term derives from the marking of a grammatical role with a suffix or another element, | |||
and has been extended to situations where there is no morphological distinction. | |||
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[[Category:Linguistics]] | [[Category:Linguistics]] | ||
[[Category:Terms]] | [[Category:Terms]] | ||
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Marking
Marking refers to changing form, and usually refers to the results of wider and regular systems of such change (such as inflection)
It need not be morphological; e.g. you can say that the use and choice of of articles (e.g. the, a) mark an object.
The term Marker usually refers to specific morphemes commonly used in morphemic marking.
For example, in English the 's' as a suffix tends to mark plural form.
See also Modification.
Markedness
Confusingly, marked forms can refer to markedness instead.
Markedness refers to a comparison linguistic behaviour as being more irregular than another.
- in a sense of just being more specific
- e.g. honest (unmarked) vs. dishonest (marked),
- be it in the sense of standing out (somewhat related to the idea of idiomacity)
- in the sense that the choice draws attention to itself
- in a sense of one being low-effort
- 'unusual' can be a broad term - you could even argue that one aspect of institutionalized phrases is that that combination of words appear with markedly (i.e. unusually) high frequency