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

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Hoenigswald, Henry M., Editor.

Wiener, Linda F., Editor.

Conference Name:

Interdisciplinary Round-Table on Cladistics and Other Graph Theoretical Representations (1983 : American Philosophical Society Library)

Series:

Anniversary Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biology--Classification--Congresses.

Biology.

Cladistic analysis--Congresses.

Cladistic analysis.

Comparative linguistics--Congresses.

Comparative linguistics.

Historical linguistics--Congresses.

Historical linguistics.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 286 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

Reprint 2016

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Contributors

Preface

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

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

Notes:

Papers from a symposium on Biological Metaphor Outside Biology, held Mar. 4-5, 1982 and an Interdisciplinary Round-Table on Cladistics and Other Graph Theoretical Representations, held Apr. 28-29, 1983, both at the American Philosophical Society's Library in Philadelphia.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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ISBN:

9781512802450

151280245X

9780585147161

0585147167

OCLC:

979954673