Biological Metaphor and Cladistic Classification - An Interdisciplinary Perspective

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Preface

PART ONE: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

1. Biological Analogy in the Study of Languages Before the Advent of Comparative Grammar

—W. Keith Percival

2. The Life and Growth of Language: Metaphors in Biology and Linguistics

—Rulon S. Wells

3. "Organic" and "Organism" in Franz Bopp

—Anna Morpurgo Davies

4. On Schleicher and Trees

—Konrad Koerner

5. A Legal Point

—Boyd H. Davis

6. Haeckel's Variations on Darwin

—Jane M. Oppenheimer

PART TWO: METHODOLOGY

7. Cladistic and Paleobotanical Approaches to Plant Phylogeny

—Peter R. Crane and Christopher R. Hill

8. Pattern and Process: Phylogenetic Reconstruction in Botany

—Peter F. Stevens

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Henry M. Hoenigswald was Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Linda F. Weiner is on the faculty of St. Johns College in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Bericht

"Should help focus attention on the possibilities for cross-fertilization among [disciplines]."--Scientist

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Henry M Hoenigswald (Herausgeber), Henry M. Hoenigswald (Herausgeber), Linda F Wiener (Herausgeber), Linda F. Wiener (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.01.1987
• EAN: 9780812280142
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-8014-2
• Seiten: 286
• Abmessung: 155 mm x 24 mm x 230 mm
• Gewicht: 600 g
• Illustration: 50 illus.
• Serie: Anniversary Collection
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Biologie > Allgemeines, Lexika