Definitions of markedness differ immensely in the literature (see Haspelmath
2006 for a summary of twelve senses of markedness, and a critique of the term). I
discuss three of these definitions of markedness that can be applied to the domain of
word order in 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3. While some of them refer to surface orders, some of
them refer to syntactic structures. In 2.4 I discuss the role of pragmatics, or
information structure in determining basic word order.
[1]Kirk, Allison Word order and information structure in New Testament Greek
Utrecht 2012-11-21, p 23ff. https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/20157