The aim of this article is to consolidate accrued knowledge and understanding of the ways in which patterns of kinship terminologies may change over time. Study of this topic, as of terminological patterns generally, goes right back to Lewis Henry Morgan's pioneering work in the middle of the nineteenth century, and we now have sufficient data and understanding of the issues involved to attempt grander paradigms than have been possible in the past. I wish to broach this issue here as a first step in this di rection , while also acknowledging some of the problems involved . The discussion will inevitably be quite technical and specialized and will assume that the reader already has a degree of knowledge and understanding about these issues. First, however, some preliminaries are in order.
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机译：本文的目的是巩固积累的知识和对亲属术语模式随时间变化的方式的理解。就一般的术语模式而言，该主题的研究可以追溯到19世纪中叶Lewis Henry Morgan的开创性工作，并且我们现在已经拥有足够的数据和对所涉及问题的理解，从而可以尝试比范本更大的范式。过去。我希望在此提出这个问题，作为此方向的第一步，同时也要承认其中涉及的一些问题。讨论将不可避免地是技术性和专业性的，并假定读者已经对这些问题有一定程度的了解和理解。但是，首先要进行一些初步准备。
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