On the correlation between discourse frequency and structural complexity in markedness theory
Markedness is commonly regarded as one of the fundamental organizing principles of human language. However, the reasons for the existence of markedness phenomena continue to be controversial, if not to say obscure. The analysis of discourse corpora from three genetically unrelated languages which is...
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Presses universitaires de Caen
2009-12-01
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/discours/7683 |