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Zero-marking, when it occurs, tends to show a strong relationship with word order. Languages in which zero-marking is widespread are almost all
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order, for which two nouns might be adjacent and their role in a sentence possibly thus confused. It has been suggested that
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Pervasive zero marking is very rare, but instances of zero marking in various forms occur in quite a number of
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Maddieson, Ian. "Locus of Marking: Whole-Language Typology", in Martin Haspelmath et al. (eds.)
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languages may be likely to develop verb-medial order if marking on nouns is lost.
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that show the relationship between different constituents of a phrase.
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WALS Feature/Chapter 25: Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology
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and its dependents are not marked for any arguments or for the
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Language with no grammatical marks on dependents or modifiers
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