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Cousin Languages

Cousin-languages constitue a new framework to capture insights of modern flow theories, regional grammatical and lexical features.

Different kinds of relatedness, all denoted by ' > ' in here:

  • direct inheritance (old german ⇨ german)
  • direct inheritance within the same family (gothic⇨german)
  • shift inheritance within the same family (gothic⇨german)
  • shift inheritance within the superfamily (latin⇨english) “recognized loans”
  • folk etymology and synesthesic influence*
  • re-connections : words with divergent sound and meaning are correctly recognized to be related and reassimilated
  • unrecognized loans within the superfamily (modern english⇨hindi)
  • calque clusters
  • loan clusters
  • loans with phono-semantic-matching
  • loans with partial calques
  • wanderworts widespread loans
  • shifting phonetics down the universal sound-change gradient ( pot > pod boot > bod > fud > Fuß )