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Old English Meter and Linguistic Theory (Paperback)
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Old English Meter and Linguistic Theory (Paperback)
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Prior to the publication of this volume in 1987, scholars
interested in Old English alliterative meter discovered a number of
intriguing restrictions on verse form, and their discoveries proved
useful in the editing of texts and in research on the early history
of the English language. It had proved impossible up to this point
however, to capture these restrictions in a plausible system of
rules. In this book Professor Russom obtained a coherent and
comprehensive rule system using the insights of linguistic theory.
The rules of this system apply not just to stress and syllable
count but to other features of word structure as well. Russom
claims, in particular, that the concept of 'metrical foot'
appropriate for analysis of Old English poetry corresponds to the
concept of 'word pattern' used in linguistic analysis. In Old
English Meter and Linguistic Theory the author explains these rules
carefully, justifies then from a linguistic point of view and goes
on to apply them to a wide variety of problems. The results should
interest not only those who deal with Old English texts, but also
metrists and linguistics generally.
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