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41 pages of results. 11. Polymathics and Catastrophism: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Problems of Evolutionary Theory [Journals] [Kronos]
... of this essay was "Anthropology and Catastrophism". Being an unusually broad discipline, anthropology, though centered in the social studies, overlaps substantially into both the humanities and the life sciences. Moreover, it embraces several highly distinctive subdisciplines, of which the most widely recognized in America are: ethnology, prehistoric archeology, human biology, and linguistics. Nonetheless, broad as anthropology is, I soon found it too narrow to deal adequately with the subject of the role of global catastrophes in shaping the evolution of our planet, our forebears, and ourselves. For this reason, I have coined the term "polymathics" to designate the investigative field proper to polymaths, or simultaneous ...
12. Saturn As King (Addenda et Corrigenda) [Journals] [Kronos]
... ) Home | Issue Contents Addenda et Corrigenda .. . Saturn As King Dwardu Cardona *The author wishes to thank Malcolm Lowery, editor of the Society for Interdisciplinary Studies Review, for having so kindly offered the objective criticism upon which the main bulk of this corrigenda is based. It has come to my attention that, insofar as the linguistic evidence contained in "Let there be Light"(1 ) is concerned, I have inadvertently allowed a few minor discrepencies to creep into my work. The following corrigenda are hereby offered for the benefit of those who, perhaps because of their linguistic deficiency, might have been trapped by my words. In a recent letter to the ...
13. The God-Kings and the Titans: The New World Ascendancy in Ancient Times by James Bailey [Journals] [Kronos]
... From: Kronos Vol. II No. 2 (Nov 1976) Home | Issue Contents The God-Kings and the Titans: The New World Ascendancy in Ancient Times by James Bailey (St. Martin's Press, New York, 1973; $9 .95) Reviewed by Roger W. Wescott Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics Drew University, Madison, N. J. Note: Reprinted with permission from The Comparative Civilisations Bulletin (published by The International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilisations), Haverhill, Mass., 01830, Fall-1974. The God-Kings is a fascinating book, boldly heterodox and eloquently argued. And it is visually attractive, being clearly printed and well illustrated ...
14. Quantalism: The Big Picture [Journals] [Aeon]
... itself is quantal, in the sense that, genetically- and hence operationally- speaking, every animal can be unambiguously assigned to a species and no animal falls between species. In this sense, species contrast with subspecies, such as human races or canine breeds, which can, and do, both intergrade and interbreed. Analogously, in linguistics, the subdiscipline of phonology makes extensive use of what is called "the quantum principle," in accordance with which, at some levels, speech-sounds are overlapping and hence non-quantal, whereas at other levels they are distinctive and hence quantal. (The technical term used for intergrading and non-quantal speech-sounds is allophones. The corresponding term for contrastive ...
15. Quantalism: the Big Picture [Articles]
... In zoology, the term species itself is quantal, in the sense that, genetically-and hence operationally-speaking, every animal can be unambiguously assigned to a species and no animal falls between species. In this sense, species contrast with subspecies, such as human races or canine breeds, which can and do both intergrade and interbreed. Analogously, in linguistics, the subdiscipline of phonology makes extensive use of what is called "the quantum principle," in accordance with which at some levels speech-sounds are overlapping and hence non-quantal, whereas at other levels they are distinctive and hence quantal. (The technical term used for intergrading and non-quantal speech-sounds is allophones. The corresponding term for contrastive and quantal ...
16. Sandal-straps and Semiology [Books] [de Grazia books]
... several hundred words of Minoan and Mycenean, catastrophe not among them. Homer and Hesiod do not employ the word, and they are the earliest of our Greek sources. I am fortified in my opinion that catastrophe originally meant disaster (dys-aster) by more than this lack of sources of early Greek usage. There is a common tendency in linguistics for people to put two words together ungrammatically and against the ordinary rules for linguistic construction. Hence, three meanings might arise independently and join, since their cognition and perception are close, viz., down-crashing star, huge disaster in general, and the disaster emulating collapse of the plot of a tragedy. Benjamin Whorf, in Language ...
17. An Objective Approach to the Work of Velikovsky [Articles]
... feel should be the hallmark of the Velikovskian movement. Let me begin by telling you an anecdote which I think will be a sobering one. A few years ago Dr. Velikovsky gave me an advance copy of Peoples of the Sea just before it came out, and with his permission I Xeroxed certain pages relevant to Anatolia which dealt with linguistic evidence Velikovsky was mounting. I sent it to a very distinguished linguist, a friend of mine at the University of Cleveland. I did not tell him who wrote the material, I simply asked him to give me his opinion on it. A couple of weeks later, he called me up and very very kindly, very gently ...
18. Aster and Disaster: Toward a Catastrophist Mode of Mythological Interpretation [Journals] [Kronos]
... and prehistoric. Historic etymology deals exclusively with documented forms, which can be attested from written sources. Prehistoric etymology, on the other hand, deals, at least in part, with undocumented or unattested forms, which must be reconstructed in something of the same way in which prehistoric life-forms are reconstructed. While historical etymology is part of historical linguistics, prehistoric etymology is part of comparative linguistics, in that reconstructed words and other linguistic forms must be based on a comparison of the attested words and documented forms presumably derived from them .+ [+ An asterisk placed directly before a prehistoric form is conventionally employed by historical linguists and comparative philologists to designate an unattested but reconstructed word or morpheme) ...
19. A Critical Re-appraisal of the Book of Genesis, Part Two [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Part One we looked at the structure of the Book of Genesis, and found that the key to the structure of the first book of Scripture was to be found in the repetitious phrase, "These are the generations ( 'Toledoth') of..." Now, in Part Two, we shall be examining Genesis from the linguistic point of view. It will be shown that Egyptian exerted considerable influence on the formation and development of Hebrew as a literary language. The Graf-Wellhausen system has dominated the field of Biblical research for more than a century, as was explained in Part One. Consequently the entire Pentateuch is considered by scholars to be a late product - even ...
20. Vox Popvli [Journals] [Aeon]
... : To anyone who has been long involved in the investigation of language origins, Strickling's brief article on the subject (5 ) must be disappointing. To begin with, by entitling it "The Origin of Language," (emphasis mine), Strickling begs the perennial question of whether languages have a single or a multiple origin. Most linguists lean toward multiplicity rather than unity of origin, although this multiplicity can be construed in either of two quite different ways: (1 ) that language was manual/visual before it became vocal/auditory (a position known as "manualism") or (2 ) that spoken language emerged independently at different times among different groups ( ...
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