{"id":51,"date":"2009-11-11T17:13:52","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T01:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/?p=51"},"modified":"2009-11-15T17:19:34","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T01:19:34","slug":"against-markedness-and-what-to-replace-it-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/2009\/11\/11\/against-markedness-and-what-to-replace-it-with\/","title":{"rendered":"Against Markedness (and What to Replace it With)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Against Markedness (and What to Replace it With) \u2013 Haspelmath (2006)<\/p>\n<p>Haspelmath argues that notions of markedness in linguistics are unmotivated .\u00a0 He instead proposes to replace the notions by detailed analysis and explanations based on textual frequency.\u00a0 He systematically examines 12 different uses of markedness throughout the linguistic literature showing in each case why the notion of markedness is unmotivated and could be replaced by alternative analysis or simpler explanations.\u00a0 His overall claim is that there is generally no theme unifying the different uses of markedness other than iconicity which he rejects in another paper and frequency which he favors.\u00a0 As a result he dismisses the notion and challenges users of markedness based explanations to justify its use.\u00a0 I found his claim that rarity\/frequency in the world is strictly speaking irrelevant for linguistics surprising.\u00a0 He goes on to say all that matters is text frequency, which is sometimes, but by no means always correlated with frequency in the world but does not really back up his claim with evidence.\u00a0 I also think Haspelmath underestimates the degree to which contextual situations can effect the phenomena he is examining.\u00a0 It is not just frequency of use that is important but contextual frequency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Against Markedness (and What to Replace it With) \u2013 Haspelmath (2006) Haspelmath argues that notions of markedness in linguistics are unmotivated .\u00a0 He instead proposes to replace the notions by detailed analysis and explanations based on textual frequency.\u00a0 He systematically examines 12 different uses of markedness throughout the linguistic literature showing in each case why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-papers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}