Contents -- Introduction -- One: On Markedness -- Leading Ideas -- Correlations and Criteria -- Marked and Unmarked -- Two: The Development of Markedness in Jakobson's Work -- Child Language, Aphasia, and Universals of Language -- Jakobson's Later Work -- Three: The Heirs of Jakobson -- Iconism of Values -- Invariance of Meaning -- Universals -- Functionalism -- Further Aspects of Markedness -- Reversal -- Neutralization -- Markedness Assimilation -- Names -- Punctuation -- Conclusion -- Four: Chomsky on Markedness -- The Sound Pattern of English -- The Extended Standard Theory -- Core Grammar -- Principles and Parameters -- Exemplification -- Economy and Minimalism -- Overview -- Five: Departures from the Core -- The Evaluation Metric -- Instantiations of Core Grammar -- Parameters -- Creoles -- Functional Motivation -- Poverty-of-Stimulus Arguments -- Indirect Negative Evidence and Strength Markedness -- Manzini and Wexler on the Subset Principle -- Extensions of the Subset Approach -- Triggering Experiences -- Second Language Acquisition -- Conclusion -- Six: Jakobson and Chomsky: Bridging Invariance and Variation -- Beyond Formalism -- Two Models of Markedness -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.