单词 | markedness |
释义 | markednessn. 1. The condition, quality, or state of being marked; distinctiveness.In quot. 1998, in allusion to sense 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > outstandingness or prominence prominence1533 prominency1650 markedness1846 1846 E. A. Poe L. G. Clark in Wks. (1864) III. 110 The markedness by which he is noticeable for nothing. 1865 J. Grote Treat. Moral Ideals xix. 451 Individuality of character is markedness. 1920 Mod. Lang. Notes 35 484 A comparison of Old French with the usage in the modern French..might well include the modern dialects, and such an inclusion would sensibly diminish the markedness of the contrast. 1998 Contemp. Women's Issues Database (Electronic ed.) 1 Sept. The ‘markedness’ of women with respect to the routine exercise of public authority existed in tension with their very real presence as doers, creators, and thinkers. 2. Linguistics. With reference to a word, form, construction, etc., in a binary opposition: the presence of a positive feature of sound, meaning, structure, etc. See marked adj. 1c. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > [noun] > distinguishing feature > state of having or not having unmarkedness1847 markedness1968 1968 N. Chomsky & M. Halle Sound Pattern Eng. 404 A major difference between the Praguian conception of markedness and our own is that in the former the marked coefficient of a feature was assumed always to be + and the unmarked coefficient always −. 1972 Sci. Amer. Sept. 78/3 Any syntactic structure is a member of a transformational chain and any two partially synonymous constructions display an interrelation of markedness and unmarkedness. 1989 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 34 378 In this article I want to evaluate the functional theory of the origins of ergativity based on markedness shift. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1846 |
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