Contents; Introduction; One: On Markedness; Two: The Development of Markedness in Jakobson's Work; Three: The Heirs of Jakobson; Four: Chomsky on Markedness; Five: Departures from the Core; Six: Jakobson and Chomsky: Bridging Invariance and Variation; Notes; References; Index
Summary
This work studies the concept of markedness in the Prague School structuralism of Roman Jakobson, its importation into generative linguistics and its development in Chomsky's "principles and parameters" framework. It traces how structuralist and generative linguistics have drawn on the concept
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-172) and index
