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* Introduction
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** What is a linguistic marker
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According to *Wikipedia*
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In linguistics, a marker is a free or bound morpheme that indicates the grammatical function of the marked word, phrase, or sentence.
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We need an elementary understanding of morphemes in order to understand liguistic marker.
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*** Morpheme
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According to *Oxford Languages Definition*.
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The smallest unit of meaning that a word in a particular language can be divided into.
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Morphemes are further defined by the Rochester Institute of Technology [[https://www.rit.edu/ntid/sea/processes/wordknowledge/grammatical/whatare][website]] as \\
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A short segment of language that meets three basic criteria:
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1. It is a word or a part of a word that has meaning.
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2. It cannot be divided into smaller meaningful segments without changing its meaning or leaving a meaningless remainder.
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3. It has relatively the same stable meaning in different verbal environments.
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Using this knowledge we will try to find the linguistic markers to mark "regional identity" specifically.
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Morphemes are further of two types:
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1. *Free Morpheme* \rightarrow Can stand alone with a specific meaning. Example, eat, date, weak etc.
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2. *Bound Morpheme* \rightarrow Cannot stand alone with meaning. Example, 's' in dogs is a plural marker telling us that there are multiple dogs.
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*** Simple definition
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Thus we can give a simple definition for linguistic marker as
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*A marker is either a word or a part of a word that can define the function of a word, sentence or phrase.*
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** Regional Identity
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According to *[[https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/regional-identity#:~:text=Regional%20identity%20is%20a%20kind,national%20and%20the%20local%20level.][J. Pohl, in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2001.]]*
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Regional identity is a kind of spatial identity on a certain scale called the meso-level. Regional identity is located between the national and the local level.
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Meso-level is analysis on level of communities, organizations and ethnic groups. For our case we are going to consider the city Dehradun as our region, since I have not lived outside of the city for any considerable amount of time (atleast not long enough for it to effect my dialect).
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