Front matter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction / Tomić, Olga Mišeska -- Markedness theory - the first 150 years / Andersen, Henning -- Defining markedness / Gvozdanović, Jadranka -- Markedness and linguistic change / Stein, Dieter -- Markedness, sound change and linguistic reconstruction / Gamkrelidze, Thomas V. -- Markedness and naturalness. 1. Thoughts about markedness and normalcy/naturalness / Winter, Werner -- Markedness and naturalness. 2. Markedness and naturalness in phonology; the case of natural phonology / Dressler, Wolfgang U. -- Towards a theory of semantic markedness / Kiefer, Ferenc -- Internationalisms: marked or unmarked / Ivir, Vladimir -- Markedness, productivity and naturalness in L2 learner lexis / Zimmermann, Rüdiger -- Markedness and grammaticalization / Lehmann, Christian -- On the assessment of the markedness status of the exponents of a grammatical category / Tomić, Olga Mišeska -- Markedness and the category of case in Polish / Laskowski, Roman -- Inflectional class markedness / Wurzel, Wolfgang Ullrich -- On the distinction marked/unmarked and primary/secondary in a linguistic description / Panevová, Jarmila -- Markedness and the grammar of INFL and verb in English / Beukema, Frits / Rigter, Bob -- The marked-unmarked distinction in the grammar of the German ergative verb / Abraham, Werner -- Transitivity and markedness: the antipassive in accusative languages / Lazard, Gilbert -- Markedness and clause structure / Harris, Martin -- On the markedness of 'narrative temporal clauses' / Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth |