> This doesn't look right. Covington is not needed by all elements of the > module.
But does it matter? I think it doesn't harm to load covington in the preamble when the linguistics module is used as you state explicitely in the documentation that covington is needed and the module handler checks that it is found by LyX. When covington is not found, you get a warning message, so I think doing this is safe.
regards Uwe