Talk:Markedness
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[edit] more examples?
Does this only apply to examples when the masculine term is used as a neutral term for both female and male things, or is there a broader scope to it? Zigzig20s 22:12, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
- It has a very broad scope, though the edges are poorly defined. I think another fairly uncontroversial example would be the word go, which isn't strongly marked for tense — it's often used in the present ("I go there daily"), but can also be used in the past ("I had to go yesterday"; "I asked him to go yesterday"; "I used to go"; and so on) — whereas the word went is fairly strongly marked for the past tense (though something like "I'll tell him Friday that I went tomorrow" is mostly acceptable, and obviously went as an irrealis sense as well, as in "If I went there every day, I'd soon be a poor man"). —RuakhTALK 01:27, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
