[论语言的标记性MARKEDNESS]翁东明

【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 indetermining markedness and the entities which linguistic criteria tell us shouldbemarkedare notclearly characterizedby thepresenceofanovert markerSpecification Thisisalinguisticcriterion usedmainlyfor determining themarkedness relation in semantics.