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Meaning of "markedness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MARKEDNESS

markedness  [ˈmɑːktnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MARKEDNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Markedness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MARKEDNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Markedness

Markedness, a term which originated in linguistics, is the state of standing out as unusual or difficult in comparison to a more common or regular form. In a marked/unmarked relation, one term of an opposition is the broader, dominant one. The dominant default or minimum effort form is known as the 'unmarked' term and the other, secondary one is the 'marked' term. In other words, it is the characterization of a "normal" linguistic unit compared to the unit's possible "irregular" forms. For example, in English, irregular verbs are marked, while regular verbs are unmarked in comparison. In linguistics, markedness can apply, among others, phonological, grammatical, and semantic oppositions, defining them in terms of 'marked' and 'unmarked' oppositions like honest vs. dishonest. Marking may be purely semantic, or may be realized as extra morphology. The term derives from the 'marking' of a grammatical role with a suffix or other element, but has been extended to situations where there is no morphological distinction.

Definition of markedness in the English dictionary

The definition of markedness in the dictionary is the quality of being marked.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MARKEDNESS


abjectness
ˈæbdʒɛktnəs
abstractness
ˈæbstræktnəs
circumspectness
ˈsɜːkəmˌspɛktnəs
defunctness
dɪˈfʌŋktnəs
distinctness
dɪˈstɪŋktnəs
erectness
ɪˈrektnəs
exactness
ɪɡˈzæktnəs
forkedness
ˈfɔːktnəs
hypercorrectness
ˌhaɪpəkəˈrɛktnəs
imperfectness
ɪmˈpɜːfɪktnəs
incorrectness
ˌɪnkəˈrɛktnəs
indistinctness
ˌɪndɪˈstɪŋktnəs
inexactness
ˌɪnɪɡˈzæktnəs
intactness
ɪnˈtæktnəs
peakedness
ˈpiːktnəs
perfectness
ˈpɜːfɪktnəs
pickedness
ˈpɪktnəs
sacrosanctness
ˈsækrəʊˌsæŋktnəs
selectness
sɪˈlɛktnəs
sweetness
ˈswiːtnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MARKEDNESS

marked
markedly
marker
marker buoy
marker pen
market
market abuse
market analysis
market cross
market day
market demand
market economy
market forces
market garden
market gardener
market gardening
market leader
market maker
market opportunity
market order

WORDS THAT END LIKE MARKEDNESS

awkwardness
baldness
blindness
boldness
business
fondness
goodness
hardness
indebtedness
kindness
loudness
madness
mindedness
oddness
preparedness
redness
sadness
soundness
tiredness
weirdness
wickedness

Synonyms and antonyms of markedness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «markedness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MARKEDNESS

Find out the translation of markedness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of markedness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «markedness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

标记性
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

marcadez
570 millions of speakers

English

markedness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

markedness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

markedness
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

выраженность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

markedness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

markedness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

monnayages
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ketinggalan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ausprägung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

有標性
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

markedness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pinunjul
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tính rõ ràng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

markedness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चिंतनशीलता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

belirtililik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

marcatezza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

markedness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вираженість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

markedness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μαρκαρισμένες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

markedness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

markedness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

markedness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of markedness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MARKEDNESS»

The term «markedness» is normally little used and occupies the 131.564 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MARKEDNESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «markedness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «markedness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about markedness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MARKEDNESS»

Discover the use of markedness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to markedness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Markedness: The Evaluative Superstructure of Language
Unlike earlier treatments, focuses on examples in English in order to be accessible to non-linguistists. Traces the history of the theory of markedness and discusses its place in current linguistic and cultural analysis.
Edwin L. Battistella, 1990
2
Markedness: Reduction and Preservation in Phonology
'Markedness' refers to the tendency of languages to show a preference for particular structures or sounds.
Paul de Lacy, 2006
3
Markedness
This volume presents the proceedIngs of the Twelfth Annual LIn guistics Symposium of the UniversIty of WisconsIn-Milwaukee held March 11-12, 1983 on the campus of UWM.
Fred Eckman, Edith A. Moravcsik, Jessica R. Wirth, 1986
4
Markedness Theory
DIVEdna Andrews clarifies and extends the work of Roman Jakobson to develop a theory of invariants in language by distinguishing between general and contextual meaning in morphology and semantics.
Edna Andrews, 1990
5
Musical Meaning in Beethoven: Markedness, Correlation, and ...
Beginning with a provocative analysis of the slow movement of the Hammerklavier piano sonata, Robert S. Hatten examines the roles of markedness, Classical topics, expressive genres, and musical tropes in fostering expressive interpretation ...
Robert S. Hatten, 2004
6
Markedness and Language Change: The Romani Sample
Biographical note: Viktor Elšik teaches at the Univerzita Karlova, Prague, Czech Republic. Yaron Matras is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manchester, UK.
Viktor Elšik, Yaron Matras, 2006
7
Analogy, Levelling, Markedness: Principles of Change in ...
"Ranging from tonogenesis, stress shift, and quantity readjustment to paradigmatic levelling, allomorphy, and grammaticalization, this collection covers a wide spectrum of developments, primarily in Germanic, Romance, and Indo-Aryan.
Aditi Lahiri, 2003
8
Markedness and Faithfulness in Vowel Systems
In its analysis of the Great Vowel Shift, this book elaborates a more useful model of a unitary change even in a surface-oriented theory such as optimality theory, with the help of local conjunction.
Viola Miglio, 2005
9
Markedness Theories
The discourse on emotions or emotional language from a linguistic point of view has also been controversial and, as opposed to markedness theories, has not had a long tradition.
Lisa Jensen, 2011
10
Markedness and Economy in a Derivational Model of Phonology
This book proposes a new model of phonology that integrates rules and repairs triggered by markedness constraints in a classical derivational model.
Andrea Calabrese, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MARKEDNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term markedness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Talkin' about a 'Revolution'
(OUP, 2009), Bad Language (OUP, 2005), and The Logic of Markedness (OUP, 1996). Posted In: America · Books · Linguistics. Subscribe to ... «OUPblog, Jul 15»
2
“Deflategate,” Fox News, and frats: this year in public apologies
... 2014), Do You Make These Mistakes in English? (OUP, 2009), Bad Language (OUP, 2005), and The Logic of Markedness (OUP, 1996). «OUPblog, Jun 15»
3
How to write a great graduation speech
(OUP, 2009), Bad Language (OUP, 2005), and The Logic of Markedness (OUP, 1996). Posted In: Books · Education · Linguistics · OxfordWords ... «OUPblog, May 15»
4
'Buyer beware': how the Federal Trade Commission redefined the …
(OUP, 2009), Bad Language (OUP, 2005), and The Logic of Markedness (OUP, 1996). Posted In: America · Books · Business & Economics ... «OUPblog, Apr 15»
5
A Toxic Stew: Risks To Women Of Public Feminism
I rarely identify as a feminist alone, as I am ever aware of the markedness of blackness. Thus, with every tweet I am concerned about the ... «NPR, Feb 15»
6
What do we love about new words?
(OUP, 2009), Bad Language (OUP, 2005), and The Logic of Markedness (OUP, 1996). Posted In: Books · Language · Linguistics · Word of the ... «OUPblog, Nov 14»
7
Why Drugs Are a Metaphor for Some Foods, and Sex Is a Metaphor …
Markedness has to do with oppositions: in pairs of words like happy/unhappy, good/bad, capable/incapable, or honest/dishonest, the first of ... «The New Republic, Sep 14»
8
Why Do We Call Good Food 'Orgasmic'?
Markedness has to do with oppositions: in pairs of words like happy/unhappy, good/bad, capable/incapable, or honest/dishonest, the first of ... «Huffington Post, Sep 14»
9
The Problem With Automatically Labeling Drag Queens as …
Their markedness certainly removes them from the category of "normatively gendered." Also, other drag performers, including RuPaul, describe ... «Huffington Post, Apr 14»
10
The Real Story Behind The New Yorker's "Pronoun Envy" Poem
Watkins, who is presumed to have written the letter, went on to explain the linguistic concept of "markedness." Simply put, there are many pairs ... «Slate Magazine, Apr 14»

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