Attested Variety ( Concept )
http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/AttestedVariety


Thing
      |_ Abstract
            |_ Linguistic System
                  |_ Human Language Variety
                        |_ Attested Variety

Definition:

AttestedVariety is the class of human language varieties that have been observed by a linguist, and for which there is at least some record and/or data. Examples of attested varieties include all of the language varieties mentioned in the Ethnologue.




PropertiesValuesDefinition
abbreviation Thing     The abbreviated form representing a scientific term, e.g., ACC, 2, CL.
ancestor Variety Human Language Variety     ancestorVariety is the predicate expressing the basic diachronic relationship between a language variety that existed some time in the past and a variety existing at a later time such that the former has evolved into the latter through regular language change.
argument Clause     The syntactic entity about which something is predicated.
feature Linguistic Property     The relation between a linguistic unit and a linguistic feature. A feature inheres in its host. NOTE: this relation is distinct from the hasFeature which pertains to data structures.
genetically Related Human Language Variety     geneticallyRelated is the basic kinship relation between languages varieties. If two language varieties are genetically related, then this implies that both varieties are derived from a common proto-language.
has Example Thing    
has Page Information Thing    
mutually Intelligible Human Language Variety     mutuallyIntelligible is the binary, symmetric relation holding between two language varieties such that speakers of the first variety can communicate with members of the second with relative ease, and vice versa.
parent Variety Human Language Variety     parentVariety is the relation of direct genetic relatedness, where there are no intermediate ancestors between the ancestor and descendant. For example, Old English is the parent variety of Middle English.
predicate Clause     The predicate is the relation between the Clause and a portion of a clause, excluding the subject, that expresses something about the subject [Crystal 1980, 280; Hartmann and Stork 1972, 182; Pei and Gaynor 1954, 173; Pike and Pike 1982, 40; Crystal 1985, 241-242].

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