Some remarks on markedness hierarchies: a reply to Aissen 1999 and 2003

This short squib examines some problems with the Markedness Hierarchy approach of Aissen (1993, 2003) with respect to case and agreement marking systems. It argues that this approach, based on overt morphological exponence of marked forms both misses important Markedness relations that are not expre...

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Main Author: Carnie, Andrew
Other Authors: University of Arizona
Language:en_US
Published: University of Arizona Linguistics Circle 2005
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/126608
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Summary:This short squib examines some problems with the Markedness Hierarchy approach of Aissen (1993, 2003) with respect to case and agreement marking systems. It argues that this approach, based on overt morphological exponence of marked forms both misses important Markedness relations that are not expressed morphologically, and fails to account for certain morphological patterns.