Dr Kirill Dmitriev of the School of Modern Languages has secured a prestigious ERC Starting Grant (2013-2017) to support his project entitled, 'Language-Philosophy-Culture: Arab Cultural Semantics in Tansition'. The project aims to study- the semantic development of the vocabulary of the Arabic language,
- philological discourses on the semantic changes in the language in the classical Arabic philological tradition (8th-10th centuries A.D.), and
- the impact of Arabic philology in the wider historical and cultural context of the Judaeo-Arab neo-classical heritage (12th-13th centuries A.D.) and Christian-Arab intellectual history on the eve of modernity (19th century A.D.).
