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1 online resource : 50 illustrations |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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 are based on the possession of derived or relatively recent characteristics, rather than primitive ones |
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In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Dec. 09, 2016) |
| Subject |
Biology -- Classification -- Congresses
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Cladistic analysis -- Congresses
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Comparative linguistics -- Congresses
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Historical linguistics -- Congresses
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HISTORY -- Historiography.
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Biology -- Classification
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Cladistic analysis
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Comparative linguistics
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Historical linguistics
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hoenigswald, Henry M
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Wiener, Linda F
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| ISBN |
9781512802450 |
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151280245X |
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