General Principles of Tzeltal Plant Classification and Nomenclature

Breedlove, Dennis E.; Raven, Peter H.

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-785047-4.50012-x

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“…This view was challenged by the research by Berlin, Rosch, and their co-workers in the 1970s (Berlin, Breedlove, & Raven, 1974;Berlin & Kay, 1969;Rosch, 1977Rosch, , 1978Rosch, , 1981Rosch, , 1994Rosch & Lloyd, 1978;Rosch, Mervis, Gray, Johnson, & Boyes-Braem, 1976). Take hierarchies like furniture/ chair/rocking chair or vehicle/car/ sports car.…”

Section: Basic-level Categoriesmentioning

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The Brain's concepts: the role of the Sensory-motor system in conceptual knowledge

Gallese

Lakoff

2005

Cognitive Neuropsychology

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Concepts are the elementary units of reason and linguistic meaning. They are conventional and relatively stable. As such, they must somehow be the result of neural activity in the brain. The questions are: Where? and How? A common philosophical position is that all concepts-even concepts about action and perception-are symbolic and abstract, and therefore must be implemented outside the brain's sensory-motor system. We will argue against this position using (1) neuroscientific evidence; (2) results from neural computation; and (3) results about the nature of concepts from cognitive linguistics. We will propose that the sensory-motor system has the right kind of structure to characterise both sensory-motor and more abstract concepts. Central to this picture are the neural theory of language and the theory of cogs, according to which, brain structures in the sensory-motor regions are exploited to characterise the so-called "abstract" concepts that constitute the meanings of grammatical constructions and general inference patterns.

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Section: Basic-level Categoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Brain's concepts: the role of the Sensory-motor system in conceptual knowledge

Gallese

Lakoff

2005

Cognitive Neuropsychology

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“…We assessed present-day use, marketing, cultivation, and translocation of Leucaena throughout its native range from Peru to the United States from published studies (22,23,33) and new data assembled from interviews with farmers and people harvesting, processing, and selling pods during 14 field collection expeditions that have allowed us to observe all 22 species and hybrids (SI Table 1). In addition, four villages in southern Puebla, San Pedro Chapulco, Santa Catalina Oxolotepec, Santiago Acatepec, and Santa Ana Teloxtoc, where high levels of sympatry were found, were surveyed for hybrids in detail in 2001 and 2003.…”

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Serendipitous backyard hybridization and the origin of crops

Hughes

Govindarajulu

Robertson

et al. 2007

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Backyard gardens, dump heaps, and kitchen middens are thought to have provided important venues for early crop domestication via generation of hybrids between otherwise isolated plant species. However, this process has rarely been demonstrated empirically. For the majority of polyploid crops, it remains uncertain to what extent hybridization and polyploidization preceded domestication or were precipitated by human activities. Using archaeological, ethnobotanical, geographical, and genetic data, we investigate the extent and significance of predomestication cultivation, backyard sympatry, and spontaneous hybridization for the Mimosoid legume tree Leucaena, which is used as a food crop throughout south-central Mexico. We show that predomestication cultivation was widespread, involved numerous independent transitions from the wild to cultivation, and resulted in extensive artificial sympatry of 2-6 species locally and 13 species in total. Using chloroplast and rapidly evolving nuclear-encoded DNA sequences, we demonstrate that hybridization in Leucaena has been extensive and complex, spawning a diverse set of novel hybrids as a result of juxtaposition of species in cultivation. The scale and complexity of hybridization in Leucaena is significantly greater than that documented for any other Mexican plant domesticates so far. However, there are striking parallels between Leucaena and the other major Mexican perennial domesticates Agave and Opuntia, which show very similar domestication via backyard hybridization pathways. Our results suggest that backyard hybridization has played a central role in Mesoamerican crop domestication and demonstrate that the simple step of bringing species together in cultivation can provide a potent trigger for domestication.domestication ͉ Leguminosae ͉ Leucaena ͉ Mesoamerica

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“…Rosch is credited with developing an actual theory of prototype categories, which has been tested by Rosch herself as well as various others (Ekman et al 1972;Berlin & Kay 1969;Brown 1958Brown , 1965Berlin 1968;Berlin et al 1974). This research focused on such issues as the structure and acquisition of categories, testing for prototype effects, and searching for sources of prototypes.…”

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Translation Studies and Representative Corpora: Establishing Links between Translation Corpora, Theoretical/Descriptive Categories and a Conception of the Object of Study

Halverson¹

2002

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This paper discusses the issue of representativeness in the creation of general translation corpora. In the course of a in-depth examination of the stages involved in the selection of texts which adequately represent the target population, it demonstrates that prototype categories are better suited than the all-or-none classical ones to reconcile existing theoretical statements about what constitutes legitimate data in translation studies with the new methodology developed by the corpus-based approach.

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General Principles of Tzeltal Plant Classification and Nomenclature

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The Brain's concepts: the role of the Sensory-motor system in conceptual knowledge

The Brain's concepts: the role of the Sensory-motor system in conceptual knowledge

Serendipitous backyard hybridization and the origin of crops

Translation Studies and Representative Corpora: Establishing Links between Translation Corpora, Theoretical/Descriptive Categories and a Conception of the Object of Study

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