Bella Coola Head Bone Nomenclature

The toponymy of head bones in Bella Coola is described and compared with the corresponding English scientific system. The differences between the two systems reflect the different evolutionary stages to which each system belongs. The Bella Coola system remains in a topographical stage, while the English scientific system has passed through this stage to a morphological one. In addition, the following points are made: (1) Bella Coola has a system of head bone names, not merely a random array of head bone names; (2) that a system exists is shown by evidence of a nonlinguistic or linguistically neutral nature, namely the results of the part-whole test; (3) that a system exists is also manifest in the linguistic data that constitute the nomenclature; (4) that the systems of (2) and (3) are, with one exception, identical

BELLA · Biology · Head (geology) · Linguistics · Nomenclature · Physics · Proper noun · Taxonomy (biology) · Zoology · History · Medical and Biological Sciences · Paleontology · Philosophy

• Coeur d'Alene exceptions to proposed universals of anatomical nomenclature

  Open Access•Gary B Palmer, Lawrence Nicodemus et al.•American Ethnologist•1985

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• General Principles of Human Anatomical Partonomy and Speculations on the Growth of Partonomic Nomenclature1

  Open Access•Cecil H Brown•American Ethnologist•1976

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• The Tarascan suffixes of locative space

  Paul Friedrich•Tarascan Suffixes of Locative Space•1971

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• The Internal Syntax of Lexical Suffixes in Bella Coola

  Ross Saunders, Philip W Davis•International Journal of American…•1975

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