6 NOMENCLATURAL DEVELOPMENT

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. LIST OF FIGURES IX
4. LIST OF TABLES XI
5. PREFACE XIII
6. 1 INTRODUCTION 1
7. 2 LIFE-FORM CLASSES AND DISCONTINUITIES IN NATURE 9
8. 3 ANALYSIS OF CROSSLANGUAGE DATA 23
9. 4 LANGUAGE RELATEDNESS AND GROWTH STAGES 33
10. 5 LEXICAL RECONSTRUCTION AND LIFE-FORM GROWTH 43
11. 6 NOMENCLATURAL DEVELOPMENT 59
12. 7 LIFE-FORMS AND LINGUISTIC MARKING 83
13. 8 EXPLANATORY FRAMEWORK 99
14. 9 CONCLUSION 117
15. PREAMBLE TO APPENDICES A AND B 129
16. A BOTANICAL LIFE-FORM DATA 133
17. B ZOOLOGICAL LIFE-FORM DATA 207
18. NOTES 269
19. REFERENCES CITED 277
20. INDEX 293