Some remarks on markedness hierarchies: a reply to Aissen 1999 and 2003
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Carnie, AndrewAffiliation
University of ArizonaIssue Date
2005
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University of Arizona Linguistics CircleJournal
Coyote Papers: Working Papers in Linguistics, Linguistic Theory at the University of ArizonaAbstract
This short squib examines some problems with the Markedness Hierarchy approach of Aissen (1993, 2003) with respect to case and agreement marking systems. It argues that this approach, based on overt morphological exponence of marked forms both misses important Markedness relations that are not expressed morphologically, and fails to account for certain morphological patterns.Type
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