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The author proposes to think about the syntactic difficulties linguists experience when they try to describe certain languages or language varieties, such as the "French Creoles" and "chatted French." The limitations of a "positive" approach of the concept of "markedness" seem to be a part of the answer to that question. In order to consider anew these difficulties, it's interesting to combine the concept of "markedness" with the notion of "remarkable," from an epistemological approach turned towards complexity. This combination between the two notions already exists in Creolistics concerning considerations about re-analysis phenomena, but it remains implicit. So this must simply be made explicit. This shows how the teachings of Creolistics can be relevant for general linguistics, the example taken in this article being that of the syntactic analysis of "chatted French."