Quotes About Linguistic features

The usual -am ending signals the dir. obj., as does the word order, which is standard for Latin: SOV, subj.-obj.-verb (vs. English, which is an SVO language); final -m was often muted in speech, and sometimes therefore dropped in writing.

that is not just a relative pronoun but also a stand-alone pronoun, a demonstrative adjective, and a conjunction.

At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.

Another linguistic feature associated with psychopathy is the proclivity to talk about power, money, sex, and physical needs, whereas lower-psychopathy individuals tend to talk more about family, friends, and spirituality.

However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.