Overte mark

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Overt marking referred in linguistics a by a morpheme visible and segmentable realization of a grammatical feature, usually a morpho-syntactic category in a noun or verb .

example

In Latin , the noun puell-a , 'girl', and the ending -a overt indicate gender (namely feminine). This is not always the case throughout a single language: puer , 'boy' does not have an overt mark for the masculine gender. Nevertheless, z. B. by adding an adjective it is clear that it is a masculine: puer stult-us . Here the characteristic genus is thus realized not overt, but the noun inherently or covert .

Generative transformation grammar

In generative transformation grammar, the term overt is also used for syntactic movements that occur on the surface structure.