On the correlation between discourse frequency and structural complexity in markedness theory

Markedness is commonly regarded as one of the fundamental organizing principles of human language. However, the reasons for the existence of markedness phenomena continue to be controversial, if not to say obscure. The analysis of discourse corpora from three genetically unrelated languages which is...

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Main Author: Regina Pustet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses universitaires de Caen 2009-12-01
Series:Discours
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/discours/7683
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