Intro -- Table of contents -- List of tables and figures -- List of abbreviations -- Preface -- 1| Language of science -- 1 | 1 Science, terminologies and hierarchical lexical sets -- 1 | 2 The aims, methods and research questions of this study -- 1 | 3 Occupational varieties and the style of science -- 1 | 4 Terms and their formation -- 1 | 5 Semantic and syntactic condensation -- 2| Lexical units and relations between them -- 2 | 1 Semantic fields and lexemes -- 2 | 2 Sense relations seen through predicate calculus -- 2 | 3 Synonymy -- 2 | 4 Polysemy and synonymy of terms -- 2 | 5 Oppositeness and antonymy -- 2 | 6 Hyponymy -- 2 | 6 | 1 Inclusion and entailment -- 2 | 6 | 2 Compatibility, incompatibility, paraphrases and imperfect relations -- 2 | 6 | 3 Relation between antonymy and hyponymy -- 2 | 6 | 4 Markedness - general and specific words -- 3| Lexical hierarchies -- 3 | 1 Classificatory hierarchies: introduction -- 3 | 2 Taxonomy -- 3 | 2 | 1 Properties of taxonomy -- 3 | 2 | 2 Natural and nominal kind hyponyms -- 3 | 2 | 3 Taxonomic overspecification and underspecification -- 3 | 3 Meronomy -- 3 | 3 | 1 Meronyms and holonyms -- 3 | 3 | 2 Transitivity vs. intransitivity of meronymy -- 3 | 4 Relation between taxonomy and meronomy -- 3 | 5 Relations similar to the part-whole relation -- 3 | 6 Proportional series as non-hierarchical configurations -- 3 | 6 | 1 Open vs. closed, consistent vs. inconsistent series -- 3 | 6 | 2 Endonyms, exonyms, analogues and lexical siblings -- 3 | 6 | 3 Paronymy -- 3 | 7 Non-branching lexical hierarchies -- 3 | 7 | 1 Derivation of non-branching hierarchies -- 3 | 7 | 2 Non-lexicalised branching and non-branching hierarchies -- 3 | 7 | 3 Scalar non-branching hierarchies -- 3 | 7 | 4 Chains vs. cycles/helices -- 4| Biological taxonomy -- 4 | 1 The principles of binomial nomenclature and biological taxonomy.

4 | 2 Representation of evolution in tree diagrams -- 4 | 3 Botanical taxonomic system and its taxonyms -- 4 | 4 Zoological taxonomic system and its taxonyms -- 4 | 5 Taxonymic inconsistencies: synonymy and polysemy -- 4 | 5 | 1 Terminological synonymy -- 4 | 5 | 2 Terminological polysemy -- 5| Lexical hierarchies in the nomenclature of economics -- 5 | 1 Lexical sources of the language of economics -- 5 | 2 Lexico-semantic properties of the financial and accounting terminology -- 5 | 3 Taxonymic inconsistencies in the language of economics: polysemy and synonymy -- 5 | 4 Lexical hierarchies in economics, finance and accounting -- 6| Lexical hierarchies in natural vs. social sciences -- 6 | 1 Natural vs. artificial classifications -- 6 | 1 | 1 Properties of taxons at higher levels -- 6 | 1 | 2 Polysemy of vernacular generic names -- 6 | 1 | 3 Other social hierarchies: military ranks -- 6 | 2 Term-formation-its sources, means and processes -- 6 | 3 Nomenclatures in the vertical perspective -- 6 | 4 Principles of term-formation at the horizontal level -- 6 | 4 | 1 Co-hyponyms in biological taxonomies -- 6 | 4 | 2 Co-hyponyms in the lexical hierarchies of accounting and finance -- 7| Properties of lexical hierarchies in biology and in economics: synthesis and conclusions -- References -- Summary -- Zusammenfassung -- Shrnut�i -- Name index -- Subject Index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.