Biological Metaphor and Cladistic Classification : : An Interdisciplinary Perspective /

Biological Metaphor and Cladistic Classification : : An Interdisciplinary Perspective / / ed. by Henry M. Hoenigswald, Linda F. Wiener.

The dynamic aspect of biological systems--the birth, growth, and death of individual organisms, the evolution of one form into another over time--has formed the basis for metaphors used in many fields for both artistic and heuristic purposes. Cladistic classification uses a tree whose branch points...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Cameron, H. Don,
Crane, Peter R.,
Davis, Boyd H.,
Hill, Christopher R.,
Hoenigswald, Henry M.,
Koerner, Konrad,
Morpurgo Davies, Anna,
Novacek, Michael J.,
Oppenheimer, Jane M.,
Percival, W. Keith,
Ruvolo, Maryellen,
Sankoff, David,
Stevens, Peter F.,
Wang, William S.-Y.,
Wells, Rulon S.,
Wiener, Linda F.,
HerausgeberIn:
Hoenigswald, Henry M.,
Wiener, Linda F.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
©1987
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:Reprint 2016
Language:English
Series:Anniversary Collection
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Physical Description:1 online resource (294 p.) :; 50 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • Part One: Historical Perspectives
  • 1 Biological Analogy in the Study of Language Before the Advent of Comparative Grammar
  • 2 The Life and Growth of Language: Metaphors in Biology and Linguistics
  • 3 "Organic" and "Organism" in Franz Bopp
  • 4 On Schleicher and Trees
  • 5 A Legal Point
  • 6 Haeckel's Variations on Darwin
  • Part Two: Methodology
  • 7 Cladistic and Paleobotanical Approaches to Plant Phylogeny
  • 8 Pattern and Process: Phylogenetic Reconstruction in Botany
  • 9 Characters and Cladograms: Examples from Zoological Systematics
  • 10 Reconstructing Genetic and Linguistic Trees: Phenetic and Cladistic Approaches
  • 11 Of Phonetics and Genetics: A Comparison of Classification in Linguistic and Organic Systems
  • 12 The Upside-down Cladogram: Problems in Manuscript Affiliation
  • 13 Representing Language Relationships
  • 14 Language Family Trees, Topological and Metrical
  • 15 Computational Complexity and Cladistics
  • Index

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