The “black swan” metaphor is today frequently used in both academic and non-academic sources to describe a plethora of events that seem to have been previously unexpected and/or unpredictable. This working paper is mostly ...

This book discusses the prosodic system of Arabic poetry as defined by al-Khalīl ibn ’Aḥmad al-Farāhīdī, evaluates that system in the light of modern linguistics science, and presents a new theory developed in the light ...