Markedness is a central notion in linguistic theory. This book is the first&nbspto provide a comprehensive survey of markedness relations&nbspacross various grammatical categories, in a sample of closelyrelated speech varieties. It is based on a sample of over 100 dialects of Romani, collected and processed via the Romani MorphoSyntax (RMS) Database a comparative grammatical outline in electronic form, constructed by the authors between 20002004. Romani dialects provide an exciting sample of language change phenomena they are oral languages, which have been separated and dispersed from some six centuries, and are strongly shaped by the influence of diverse contact languages. The book takes a typological approach to markedness, viewing it as a hierarchy among values that is conditioned by conceptual and cognitive universals. But it introduces a functionalpragmatic notion of markedness, as a grammaticalised strategy employed in order to priositise information. In what is referred to as&nbspdynamic, such prioritisation is influenced by an interplay of factors the values within a category and the conceptual notions that they represent, the grammatical structure onto which the category values are mapped, and the kind of strategy that is applied in order to prioritise certain value. Consequently, the book contains a thorough survey of some 20 categories (e.g Person, Number, Gender, and so on) and their formal representation in various grammatical structures across the sample....

Binding: Hardcover;500 pages; Publisher: De Gruyter; Classification: CFK; Weight: 950 g; Dimensions: 230 x 155

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