Markedness And Language Change —— The Romani Sample

----- 显著与语言变化：罗马尼亚语之例

ISBN: 9783110184525 出版年：2008 页码：500 Elsik, Viktor Matras, Yaron De Gruyter Mouton

The book challenges the conventional notion of Markedness?– a very central albeit controversial concept in linguistic theory. The authors investigate the structural representation of a selection of semantic categories in a sample of some 100 varietiesof Romani, which have been separated and dispersed throughout Europe during the past six centuries. Generalizations are made on the kind of structural changes that are attested in the sample, and the extent to which certain semantic-conceptual values ar