linguisticFeature
P6520
predicate
Indicates a relationship where a linguistic property, pattern, or characteristic is attributed to or associated with a language-related entity (such as a word, phrase, or text).
Aliases (19)
- morphology ×65
- orthographicFeature ×13
- phonologyFeature ×9
- languageCharacteristic ×5
- linguisticLegacy ×5
- linguisticStyle ×3
- phonologicalFeatures ×3
- featuresSpokenWord ×2
- formalFeature ×2
- linguisticForm ×2
- phoneticFeature ×2
- dialectFeature ×1
- featuresLanguage ×1
- hasOrthographyFeature ×1
- linguisticComponent ×1
- morphosyntacticAlignment ×1
- morphosyntacticFeature ×1
- notableLanguageFeature ×1
- spellingCharacteristic ×1
Sample triples (219)
| Subject | Object |
|---|---|
| Adamawa–Ubangi languages | mostly tonal languages → |
| Adamawa–Ubangi languages | noun class systems of varying complexity → |
| Adamawa–Ubangi languages | rich verbal morphology → |
| Afar | agglutinative morphology ("morphology") → |
| Afar | contrastive vowel length ("phonologyFeature") → |
| Afar | emphatic consonants ("phonologyFeature") → |
| Anatidae | palmate feet ("morphology") → |
| Anatidae | relatively long necks in geese and swans ("morphology") → |
| Anatidae | shorter necks in most ducks ("morphology") → |
| Ascaris lumbricoides | cylindrical body ("morphology") → |
| Ascaris lumbricoides | tapered ends ("morphology") → |
| Atikamekw language | agglutinative language ("morphology") → |
| Bacillus anthracis | rod-shaped ("morphology") → |
| Batanic languages | Austronesian alignment (Philippine-type) ("morphosyntacticAlignment") → |
| Breton | inflected prepositions ("morphology") → |
| Breton | initial consonant mutation ("morphology") → |
| Cajun | code-switching between French and English ("dialectFeature") → |
| California tiger salamander | large head ("morphology") → |
| California tiger salamander | relatively short limbs ("morphology") → |
| California tiger salamander | stout body ("morphology") → |
| Celtic languages | conjugated prepositions → |
| Celtic languages | distinction between absolute and conjunct verb forms in Old Irish → |
| Celtic languages | initial consonant mutation → |
| Celtic languages | use of inflected prepositions → |
| Celtic languages | use of verbal nouns → |
| Celtic languages | verb–subject–object word order tendency → |
| Central Banda languages | noun class system → |
| Central Banda languages | tonal language → |
| Central Indian Ridge | axial high in some segments ("morphology") → |
| Central Indian Ridge | rift valley ("morphology") → |
| Chennai English | Tamil-influenced spellings in informal writing ("hasOrthographyFeature") → |
| Chile Rise | submarine ridge ("morphology") → |
| Chocoan languages | agglutinative ("morphology") → |
| Chávez | containsAcuteAccentOnA ("orthographicFeature") → |
| Colinus virginianus | rounded wings ("morphology") → |
| Colinus virginianus | short tail ("morphology") → |
| Colinus virginianus | small plump body ("morphology") → |
| Colombian Spanish | use of diminutives such as -ico and -ica in some regions ("morphosyntacticFeature") → |
| Concepción Volcano | near-perfect cone ("morphology") → |
| East Slavic languages | aspectual verb system → |
| East Slavic languages | case system → |
| East Slavic languages | grammatical gender → |
| East Slavic languages | palatalization contrasts → |
| East Slavic languages | rich inflectional morphology → |
| Eastern Iranian languages | often preserve complex consonant clusters → |
| Eastern Iranian languages | show extensive case systems in many members → |
| Eastern Iranian languages | typically exhibit SOV word order → |
| Eddie | double d ("orthographicFeature") → |
| Eddie | final ie ending ("orthographicFeature") → |
| Ellicean languages | contrastive vowel length ("phonologicalFeatures") → |
| Ellicean languages | five-vowel system ("phonologicalFeatures") → |
| Ellicean languages | simple consonant inventory ("phonologicalFeatures") → |
| Elmer Fudd | pronounces "r" and "l" as "w" ("languageCharacteristic") → |
| Euparagiinae | distinctive morphology within Vespidae ("morphology") → |
| Fernández | contains the letter z ("orthographicFeature") → |
| Fox language | animacy distinction ("morphology") → |
| Fox language | obviation system ("morphology") → |
| Fox language | rich verbal morphology ("morphology") → |
| Fringillidae | pointed wings ("morphology") → |
| Fringillidae | strong legs and feet ("morphology") → |
| Gallo-Romance languages | development of front rounded vowels → |
| Gallo-Romance languages | loss of many final vowels → |
| Gallo-Romance languages | palatalization of Latin /k/ and /g/ before front vowels → |
| Gallo-Romance languages | use of articles derived from Latin demonstratives → |
| Great Commandment | double commandment ("linguisticForm") → |
| Gur languages | mostly SVO word order → |
| Gur languages | rich noun class systems in many languages → |
| Gur languages | typically tonal → |
| Here | true ("featuresSpokenWord") → |
| Ho-Chunk language | nasal vowels → |
| Ho-Chunk language | rich system of verbal affixes → |
| Ho-Chunk language | tone or pitch accent (in some analyses) → |
| Ho-Chunk language | use of vowel length contrast → |
| Hoocąk | nasalized vowel ("phoneticFeature") → |
| Ijoid languages | noun class remnants → |
| Ijoid languages | rich verbal morphology → |
| Ijoid languages | tone languages → |
| Iranian languages | SOV basic word order → |
| Iranian languages | development of postpositions from earlier case endings → |
| Iranian languages | extensive use of suffixes → |
| Iranian languages | rich system of consonants → |
| Iranian languages | split ergativity in some Eastern Iranian languages → |
| Iranian languages | use of ezafe construction in many Western Iranian languages → |
| Italic languages | shared sound changes from Proto-Indo-European → |
| Italic languages | similar verbal morphology across subgroup → |
| Jarawa language | small phoneme inventory (relative to many world languages) ("phonologyFeature") → |
| Kabyle | agglutinative features ("morphology") → |
| Kabyle | nonconcatenative morphology ("morphology") → |
| Kamviri language | case marking on nouns → |
| Kamviri language | complex verbal morphology → |
| Kamviri language | grammatical gender → |
| Kamviri language | rich consonant inventory → |
| Kartvelian languages | complex consonant clusters (especially in Georgian and Svan) → |
| Kartvelian languages | rich case systems (in several members) → |
| Khoisan peoples | use of click consonants ("languageCharacteristic") → |
| Kiliwa language | highly complex verbal morphology ("morphology") → |
| Kipchak languages | SOV basic word order → |
| Kipchak languages | agglutinative morphology → |
| Kipchak languages | vowel harmony → |
| Klyuchevskoy | symmetrical cone ("morphology") → |
| Lady Marmalade (2001 version) | French phrases ("featuresLanguage") → |
| Latin | use of macrons in pedagogical texts to mark vowel length ("orthographicFeature") → |
| Livonian language | rich case system ("morphology") → |
| Magadhi Prakrit | loss of certain Old Indo-Aryan consonant clusters → |
| Magadhi Prakrit | reduction of vowel length distinctions → |
| Magadhi Prakrit | simplification of nominal inflection → |
| Magadhi Prakrit | tendency toward analytic verbal constructions → |
| Magadhi Prakrit | use of postpositions instead of many case endings → |
| Mande languages | mostly tonal → |
| Mande languages | predominantly SOV word order → |
| Mande languages | rich aspectual verbal morphology → |
| Marie-Louise | contains hyphen ("orthographicFeature") → |
| Mawenzi | heavily eroded ("morphology") → |
| Mawenzi | jagged ("morphology") → |
| Melanesia | hundreds of distinct languages → |
| Mingus | Charles Mingus ("featuresSpokenWord") → |
| Modern South Arabian languages | Semitic root-and-pattern system → |
| Modern South Arabian languages | emphatic consonants → |
| Modern South Arabian languages | nonconcatenative morphology → |
| Modern South Arabian languages | rich consonant inventory → |
| Mohawk language | agglutinative features ("morphology") → |
| Mohawk language | polysynthetic morphology ("morphology") → |
| Muskogean languages | contrastive vowel length ("phonologyFeature") → |
| Muskogean languages | nasal vowels ("phonologyFeature") → |
| Muskogean languages | voiceless sonorants ("phonologyFeature") → |
| Naskapi language | agglutinative ("morphology") → |
| Nazca Basin | abyssal plain and deep basin topography ("morphology") → |
| Nevado de Acay volcanic center | compound volcanic edifice ("morphology") → |
| North Germanic languages | V2 word order in main clauses in most languages → |
| North Germanic languages | definite suffix on nouns in most languages → |
| North Germanic languages | grammatical gender in most languages → |
| North Germanic languages | rich vowel inventory → |
| North Germanic languages | voiced and voiceless stops → |
| Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages | exhibit tonal contrasts in some languages such as Punjabi → |
| Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages | often preserve older Indo-Aryan phonological features → |
| Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages | show influence from Iranian languages → |
| Onchocerca volvulus | filamentous body ("morphology") → |
| Ophiostoma | often produces synnemata or coremia in asexual state ("morphology") → |
| Ophiostoma | produces ascospores in asci ("morphology") → |
| Ophiostoma | produces perithecial ascomata ("morphology") → |
| Ophiostoma quercus | forms dark staining in xylem ("morphology") → |
| Ophiostoma quercus | produces hyaline to lightly pigmented hyphae ("morphology") → |
| Ophiostomataceae | produces perithecial ascomata ("morphology") → |
| Ophiostomataceae | produces sticky spore masses adapted for insect dispersal ("morphology") → |
| Oregon Penutian languages | complex verb morphology → |
| Oregon Penutian languages | prefixing and suffixing morphology → |
| Oregon Penutian languages | rich case systems in some member languages → |
| Osco-Umbrian languages | loss of final -s in Umbrian inscriptions → |
| Osco-Umbrian languages | sound change of Indo-European *kʷ to p in some languages → |
| Osco-Umbrian languages | use of -f- in future and conditional endings in Oscan → |
| Ottawa—Vanier | significant bilingual population ("languageCharacteristic") → |
| Paleo-Latin alphabet | lack of consistent word separation ("orthographicFeature") → |
| Paleo-Latin alphabet | limited use of punctuation ("orthographicFeature") → |
| Paleo-Latin alphabet | variable representation of long vowels ("orthographicFeature") → |
| Pangasinan language | agglutinative ("morphology") → |
| Pauletta | diminutive ("linguisticForm") → |
| Pe | has final form only in word-final position ("orthographicFeature") → |
| Pearl (poem) | link-and-phrase pattern between stanzas ("formalFeature") → |
| Pearl (poem) | refrain-like repetition of key words ("formalFeature") → |
| Phoenician language | root-and-pattern morphology ("morphology") → |
| Pichi language | analytic ("morphology") → |
| Popoluca | polysynthetic language ("morphology") → |
| Proto-Greek | development of aspirated stops ("phonologyFeature") → |
| Proto-Greek | loss of laryngeals from Proto-Indo-European ("phonologyFeature") → |
| Proto-Greek | palatalization of velars before front vowels ("phonologyFeature") → |
| Raúl | acute accent on the letter a ("orthographicFeature") → |
| René | acute accent on final e ("orthographicFeature") → |
| Runasimi | suffixing morphology ("morphology") → |
| San Cristóbal | steep-sided cone ("morphology") → |
| Shawnee language | agglutinative morphology ("morphology") → |
| Siouan languages | primarily head-marking morphology → |
| Siouan languages | rich verb morphology → |
| Siouan languages | use of noun incorporation in some languages → |
| Southern Bantu | agglutinative morphology → |
| Southern Bantu | concordial agreement → |
| Southern Bantu | noun class system → |
| Southern Bantu | rich verbal morphology → |
| Southern Nilotic languages | complex verbal morphology → |
| Southern Nilotic languages | tone → |
| Southern Nilotic languages | vowel harmony → |
| Surah Al-Mursalat | begins with a series of oaths → |
| Surah Al-Mursalat | strong rhythmic and emphatic style → |
| Surah Al-Qamar | repetition for emphasis → |
| Surah Al-Qamar | strong rhythmic style → |
| Surah As-Saffat | rhythmic composition ("linguisticStyle") → |
| Surah As-Saffat | short powerful verses ("linguisticStyle") → |
| Surah As-Saffat | vivid imagery ("linguisticStyle") → |
| Tabula Bantina | South Oscan dialect → |
| Texas's 15th congressional district | large Spanish-speaking population ("languageCharacteristic") → |
| Texas's 23rd congressional district | large Spanish-speaking population ("languageCharacteristic") → |
| Thuy | one syllable in Vietnamese ("phoneticFeature") → |
| Tokelauan language group | shares phonological features with other Polynesian languages → |
| Tokelauan language group | shares vocabulary with Samoan → |
| Trichinella spiralis | females larger than males ("morphology") → |
| Trichinella spiralis | small cylindrical body ("morphology") → |
| Turdidae | medium-sized passerine birds ("morphology") → |
| Turdidae | often spotted or streaked underparts ("morphology") → |
| Ugric languages | agglutinative morphology → |
| Ugric languages | postpositions → |
| Ugric languages | rich case system → |
| Ugric languages | subject–object–verb word order (SOV) in Ob-Ugric → |
| Ugric languages | subject–verb–object word order (SVO) in Hungarian → |
| Ugric languages | vowel harmony → |
| Vespidae | chewing mouthparts ("morphology") → |
| Vespidae | narrow waist between thorax and abdomen ("morphology") → |
| Vespidae | two pairs of membranous wings ("morphology") → |
| Walapai language | agglutinative language ("morphology") → |
| Wampanoag language | complex inflectional system ("morphology") → |
| Wampanoag language | rich verbal morphology ("morphology") → |
| Yokutsan languages | polysynthetic morphology ("morphology") → |
| Zimmermann | contains double "n" at the end ("spellingCharacteristic") → |
| du Plessis | contains space between "du" and "Plessis" ("orthographicFeature") → |
| solidus | etymological ancestor of French sol ("linguisticLegacy") → |
| solidus | etymological ancestor of Italian soldo ("linguisticLegacy") → |
| solidus | etymological ancestor of Spanish sueldo ("linguisticLegacy") → |
| solidus | influenced English abbreviation “s” for shilling ("linguisticLegacy") → |
| solidus | source of the term solidus in medieval Latin accounting ("linguisticLegacy") → |
| ud-Daulah | Persian word "daulah" meaning "state" or "government" ("linguisticComponent") → |
| ¡No pasarán! | future tense ("notableLanguageFeature") → |