Ibn Khaldun and Some Classic Views in 20th Century Linguistics

Economics of Ibn Khaldun: Revisited

A close look at the writings of the Middle Eastern and North African scholars who lived in the Middle Ages (roughly between A.D. 476-1500) reveals an immense body of theoretical knowledge pertaining to the humanities, and behavioral and social sciences. A partial list of the scholars who wrote on these issues includes names such as Abu Yusuf (8th century), Abul-Fadl Al-Dimishgi (9th century), A...

Decontextualising and Recontextualising Tendencies in 20th Century Linguistics and Literary Theory

Publication reference: Geeraerts, Dirk. 2003. "Decontextualizing and recontextualizing tendencies in 20th-century linguistics and literary theory". 1 Lines of development in linguistics Let us assume that one would have to present the history of 20th century linguistics in a nutshell: what would be the main lines of development? Would it be possible at all to synthesize a century of theoretical...

Comparative Mon-Khmer Linguistics in the 20th Century: Where From, Where To?

0 Abstract Just over a century since the foundational studies of Wilhelm Schmidt, and the extraordinary effervescence that the field enjoyed in the 1960s and 1970s, we have again reached an important watershed in the history of Mon-Khmer (MK) comparative-historical studies. 2006 saw the publication of Shorto's A Mon-Khmer Comparative Dictionary (MKCD), a wealth of extensive descriptive and lexi...

Genealogy or Asabiyya? Ibn Khaldun between Arab Nationalism and the Ottoman Caliphate

Form in 20th Century Music

FORM. In the most general sense: shape (contour, the variation of some attribute of a thing in space or time), and structure (the disposition of parts, relations of part to part, and of part to whole). In music, shape is the result of changes in some attribute or parameter of sound, in time, while structure has to do with various relations between sounds and sound-configurations, at the same or...