As an example of the application of the division of the setting of the language, here follows the hierarchical division of the respective chapter of González Campos & Lehmann, The Cabecar language, down to level 5 of the hierarchy.

2 Setting of the language

2.1 Language name

2.2 Ethnographic setting

2.2.1 Geography

2.2.2 Ethnology and demography

2.2.3 Kinship

2.3 Genealogical setting

2.3.1 Internal setting: dialects

2.3.1.1 Phonological variation

2.3.1.2 Lexical variation

2.3.1.3 Grammatical variation

2.3.2 External setting: affiliation

2.3.2.1 Viceitic languages

2.3.2.2 Chibchan languages

2.4 Cultural setting

2.4.1 Oral tradition

2.4.2 Literacy

2.5 Social setting

2.5.1 Internal setting: varieties

2.5.2 External setting: language contact

2.6 Language system: typological overview

2.6.1 Phonology

2.6.2 Morphology

2.6.3 Syntax

2.6.3.1 Government and modification

2.6.3.2 Alignment of actant relations

2.6.3.3 Constituent order