Non-inherited features The comparative method cannot recover aspects of a language that were not inherited in its daughter idioms. For instance, the Latin declension pattern was lost in Romance languages, resulting in an impossibility to fully reconstruct such a feature via systematic comparison.
non-inherited features the comparative method cannot recover aspects of a language that were not inherited in its daughter idioms for instance the latin declension pattern was lost in romance languages resulting in an impossibility to fully reconstruct such a feature via systematic comparison