Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Contributors VII
4. Preface IX
5. Part One: Historical Perspectives
6. 1 Biological Analogy in the Study of Language Before the Advent of Comparative Grammar 3
7. 2 The Life and Growth of Language: Metaphors in Biology and Linguistics 39
8. 3 “Organic” and “Organism” in Franz Bopp 81
9. 4 On Schleicher and Trees 109
10. 5 A Legal Point 115
11. 6 Haeckel's Variations on Darwin 123
12. Part Two: Methodology
13. 7 Cladistic and Paleobotanical Approaches to Plant Phylogeny 139
14. 8 Pattern and Process: Phylogenetic Reconstruction in Botany 155
15. 9 Characters and Cladograms: Examples from Zoological Systematics 181
16. 10 Reconstructing Genetic and Linguistic Trees: Phenetic and Cladistic Approaches 193
17. 11 Of Phonetics and Genetics: A Comparison of Classification in Linguistic and Organic Systems 217
18. 12 The Upside-down Cladogram: Problems in Manuscript Affiliation 227
19. 13 Representing Language Relationships 243
20. 14 Language Family Trees, Topological and Metrical 257
21. 15 Computational Complexity and Cladistics 269
22. Index 281