Biological Metaphor and Cladistic Classification

Herausgegeben:Hoenigswald, Henry M.; Wiener, Linda F.

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• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Reprint 2016 edition
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 1987
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 600g
• ISBN-13: 9780812280142
• ISBN-10: 0812280148
• Artikelnr.: 32033147

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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

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