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Reconstructing Old Chinese *‐ts Using Han‐Time Material
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Baxter & Sagart (2014b) reconstruct *‐Vt‐s on the basis of Middle Chinese reflexes in ‐jH (from some OC *‐s) coupled with either etymological or graphic connections to words in Middle Chinese ‐t. This approach, while perfectly sound, can suffer from lack of etymological or graphic data, leading to missed reconstructions. Since Old Chinese *‐ts
Julien Baley
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Metre and clitics in Old English and Old Saxon
GlossaThis article attempts to extract prosodic information from Germanic (here, Old English and Old Saxon) alliterative poetry by integrating multiple theoretical frameworks.
Nelson Goering
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Eomer Gets Poetic: Tolkien\u27s Alliterative Versecraft [PDF]
, 2018 Throughout Tolkien\u27s professional career he dealt with a great number of texts that had varying views on the heroic, the romantic, the everyday world, and the role of Faerie.
Shelton, James
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Thorlac Turville-Petre. Description and Narrative in Middle English Alliterative Poetry
The Review of English Studies, 2019 openaire +3 more sources
One Voice, Ancient and Resigned [PDF]
, 2020 While we know, or at least can imagine, what Gower looked like in his old age, it is hard to imagine or hear his voice. And yet, given what we know about his old age and visual impairments, his voice necessarily was important to his old age and ...
Rogers, Will
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The Form and Style of Gnomic Hypermetrics [PDF]
, 2014 Gnomic poems have often been noted for their unusual metrical style. One aspect of their style that stands out is the hypermetric usage, both because these poems contain a notably high incidence of hypermetric verses and because the verses are frequently
Hartman, Megan E.
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The recurring collocation of vreiðr and vega in Old Norse poetry
Manuscript and Text CulturesPoetry in early Germanic vernaculars exhibits variations on a metrical form predicated on a pattern of alliterating stressed syllables linking two halves of a line (in contrast to syllabic metres in which scansion requires a fixed number of syllables ...
James Parkhouse
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Journal of Personality, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Nursery rhymes, which are rich in literary devices, benefit children's language learning. Less is known about the influence that nursery rhymes' messages may have on children's development. We focused on “Monday's Child,” a popular nursery rhyme that alleges children's day of the week of birth forecasts their differences in ...
Emily Wood +8 more
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WRITING AND LITERARY ACTIVITY IN THE VERNACULAR IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND [PDF]
, 2013 У статті розглянуто процес виникнення і функціонування різних форм текстової фіксації на англійських територіальних діалектах давнього періоду розвитку англійської мови як наслідок розвитку суспільних функцій мови та розширення сфер функціонування її ...
Євченко, В. В.
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Text as tape: On the voice in the late prose of Friederike Mayröcker
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract For a text to have a voice means to be caught in a paradox: the text obviously does not speak, so what is that tone rising from the pages? Taking hold of a striking ambivalence, this essay examines the relationship between text and voice in the late prose of Austrian poet Friederike Mayröcker.
Astrid Elander
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