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 )