# covertness

> linguistic property of a feature of a morpheme, word, or phrase, where there is no surface (morphological) evidence of its presence, only inferred from other linguistic items

**Wikidata**: [Q5179285](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5179285)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_(linguistics))  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/covertness


## References

1. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)