【论语言的标记性MARKEDNESS】翁东明.pdf
ThesisofMasterDeqree.火*火*火火.火火.*MARKEDNESS Author:Weng Dong Ming Major:Applied Linguistics Tutor:Sun Huai Qing JiLin University December,
than plural forms-they are thus more common,more familiar.And.third-ly.singular forms exhibit in many languages a greater differentiation in terms ofgender or case thanplural forms do.This isquite obvious in Ger-man where articles show a three-way gender differentiation in the singular but not in
determining markedness and the entities which linguistic criteria tell us shouldbemarkedare notclearly characterizedby thepresenceofanovert markerSpecification Thisisalinguisticcriterion usedmainlyfor determining themarkedness relation in semantics.