The use of marked english verbs as a tool of protest in african commonwealth poetry

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• What: The paper has made a pertinent contribution in linguistic studies by proving that the linguistic phenomenon of markedness goes beyond existing linguistic terms like hyponymy and polysemy and can thus not be better expressed by them as some scholars claim. In the specific case of verbs with which this contribution is concerned, the more additional statements a verb makes, the more semantically marked it can be considered to be. Only in the seventh chapter of his work that deals with lexis, does this work attempt an analysis of smaller linguistic units like the revisionist use of . . .
  

   

  

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