I-IV -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Markedness theory - the first 150 years -- Defining markedness -- Markedness and linguistic change -- Markedness, sound change and linguistic reconstruction -- Markedness and naturalness. 1. Thoughts about markedness and normalcy/naturalness -- Markedness and naturalness. 2. Markedness and naturalness in phonology; the case of natural phonology -- Towards a theory of semantic markedness -- Internationalisms: marked or unmarked -- Markedness, productivity and naturalness in L2 learner lexis -- Markedness and grammaticalization -- On the assessment of the markedness status of the exponents of a grammatical category -- Markedness and the category of case in Polish -- Inflectional class markedness -- On the distinction marked/unmarked and primary/secondary in a linguistic description -- Markedness and the grammar of INFL and verb in English -- The marked-unmarked distinction in the grammar of the German ergative verb -- Transitivity and markedness: the antipassive in accusative languages -- Markedness and clause structure -- On the markedness of 'narrative temporal clauses' -- Author Index -- Language Index -- Subject Index