Kinship

This comment is directed critically at certain arguments made by German Dziebel concerning the derivation of Crow-Omaha terminologies. Dziebel asks why such features cannot be derived from alternate generation equations. It is shown that this would have to happen indirectly, if at all. Dziebel's difficulties with the mixing of cross and parallel and the place of bifurcate merging and collateral terminological features in this context are also commented on, it being argued that they are all perfectly compatible with Crow-Omaha and indeed regularly found with such terminologies.