| The Phonology of Old English Stress and Metrical Structure Contributor(s): Viereck, Wolfgang (Other), Gasiorowski, Piotr (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631313632 ISBN-13: 9783631313633 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $60.49 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 429.16 |
| LCCN: 97142221 |
| Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
| Physical Information: 0.31" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.40 lbs) 136 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book attempts to build a complete theory of stress in Old English. In particular, the author tries to elucidate the relation, in that language, between stress placement and syllable weight. Eventually, he finds that the syllable should be abandoned as the central notion of Old English metrical phonology and replaced with the mora as an independent unit of phonological quantity. These findings are then applied to a new, phonologically-based analysis of the rhythm of Old English poetry. |