1. This is because mother’s sister shares matrilineality with mother and collaterality with father’s sister, but there is no common property of mother and father’s sister, the two most different terms, except female, first ascending generation, and this includes mother’s sister in its reference (Greenberg 1980: 22). 2. The references of Lowie (1928), Kirchhoff (1932), and Murdock (1947) see in the list for Counterexamples and Comments.
1. This is because mother’s sister shares matrilineality with mother and collaterality with father’s sister, but there is no common property of mother and father’s sister, the two most different terms, except female, first ascending generation, and this includes mother’s sister in its reference (Greenberg 1980: 22). 2. The references of Lowie (1928), Kirchhoff (1932), and Murdock (1947) see in the list for Counterexamples and Comments.