| Lemma | markedness shift |
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| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Dik (1989) |
| Titolo | The theory of functional grammar. Part I: the structure of the clause |
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| Citazioni | […] we introduced the notion of markedness shift, through which originally marked constructions develop into new unmarked constructions, and thus push the originally unmarked constructions out of work. One type of loss of markedness is involved in what I call “markedness shift”. By this I mean a historical process through which an originally marked item loses its marked character (gets “demarked”), and thus makes room for the creation of a new marked form. |