A New Look at Old English Metrics
In this paper I propose a scansion of Old English alliterative poetry in terms of a binary branching template. The analysis builds on work by Halle and Keyser (1971) and Maling (1971), but has two advantages over these analyses: (a) it provides a natural explanation of many apparently irregular vers...
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Formatua: | Artikulua |
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University of Kansas
1989-01-01
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Saila: | Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics |
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Sarrera elektronikoa: | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/570 |