Publications
Publication details [#23199]
Witkowski, Stanley R. and Cecil H. Brown. 1983. Marking-reversals and cultural importance. Language 59 (3) : 569–582. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Annotation
An analysis of the connection between markedness of lexical forms in a number of languages and the cultural background of their speech community. Attention is given to lexical change and contact phenomena in marking-reversals.