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A History of Old English Meter / R. D. Fulk.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Middle Ages SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©1993Description: 1 online resource (496 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812231571
  • 9781512802221
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 829/.1 20
LOC classification:
  • PE257 .F85 1992eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- WORKS FREQUENTLY CITED -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER I. WEST GERMANIC PARASITING -- CHAPTER II . CONTRACTION -- CHAPTER III. CONTRACTION IN NEGATED VERBS AND INDEFINITE PRONOUNS -- CHAPTER IV. COMPENSATORY LENGTHENING UPON LOSS OF h -- CHAPTER V. ANALOGICAL LENGTHENING IN DIPHTHONGAL STEMS -- CHAPTER VI. KALUZA'S LAW -- CHAPTER VII. CHANGES IN ICTUS AT THE TERTIARY LEVEL -- CHAPTER VIII. ICTUS AND RESOLUTION IN NONFINAL POSITION -- CHAPTER IX. MISCELLANEOUS PROPOSED CHRONOLOGICAL VARIABLES -- CHAPTER X . LATE DEVELOPMENT -- CHAPTER XI. SYNCOPATED ENDINGS OF LONG-STEMMED VERBS AND OTHER PRESUMED INDICATORS OF DIALECT ORIGINS -- CONCLUSION: RELATIVE AND ABSOLUTE DATING -- APPENDIX A: CHRONOLOGY AND DIALECT IN THE REMAINING LONGER POEMS -- APPENDIX B: THE DATE OF THE BATTLE OF MALDON -- APPENDIX C: LONG AND SHORT INFLECTIONAL SYLLABLES -- APPENDIX D: DATING THE EARLY BEDE MANUSCRIPTS -- INDEX OF WORDS -- INDEX OF VERSES -- INDEX OF AUTHORITIES -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS
Summary: In A History of Old English Meter, R. D. Fulk offers a wide-ranging reference on Anglo-Saxon meter. Fulk examines the evidence for chronological and regional variation in the meter of Old English verse, studying such linguistic variables as the treatment of West Germanic parasite vowels, contracted vowels, and short syllables under secondary and tertiary stress, as well as a variety of supposed dialect features. Fulk's study of such variables points the way to a revised understanding of the role of syllable length in the construction of early Germanic meters and furnishes criteria for distinguishing dialectal from poetic features in the language of the major Old English poetic codices. On this basis, it is possible to draw conclusions about the probable dialect origins of much verse, to delineate the characteristics of at least four discrete periods in the development of Old English meter, and with some probability to assign to them many of the longer poems, such as Genesis A, Beowulf, and the works of Cynewulf.A History of Old English Meter will be of interest to scholars of Anglo-Saxon, historians of the English language, Germanic philologists, and historical linguists.
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Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- WORKS FREQUENTLY CITED -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER I. WEST GERMANIC PARASITING -- CHAPTER II . CONTRACTION -- CHAPTER III. CONTRACTION IN NEGATED VERBS AND INDEFINITE PRONOUNS -- CHAPTER IV. COMPENSATORY LENGTHENING UPON LOSS OF h -- CHAPTER V. ANALOGICAL LENGTHENING IN DIPHTHONGAL STEMS -- CHAPTER VI. KALUZA'S LAW -- CHAPTER VII. CHANGES IN ICTUS AT THE TERTIARY LEVEL -- CHAPTER VIII. ICTUS AND RESOLUTION IN NONFINAL POSITION -- CHAPTER IX. MISCELLANEOUS PROPOSED CHRONOLOGICAL VARIABLES -- CHAPTER X . LATE DEVELOPMENT -- CHAPTER XI. SYNCOPATED ENDINGS OF LONG-STEMMED VERBS AND OTHER PRESUMED INDICATORS OF DIALECT ORIGINS -- CONCLUSION: RELATIVE AND ABSOLUTE DATING -- APPENDIX A: CHRONOLOGY AND DIALECT IN THE REMAINING LONGER POEMS -- APPENDIX B: THE DATE OF THE BATTLE OF MALDON -- APPENDIX C: LONG AND SHORT INFLECTIONAL SYLLABLES -- APPENDIX D: DATING THE EARLY BEDE MANUSCRIPTS -- INDEX OF WORDS -- INDEX OF VERSES -- INDEX OF AUTHORITIES -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS

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In A History of Old English Meter, R. D. Fulk offers a wide-ranging reference on Anglo-Saxon meter. Fulk examines the evidence for chronological and regional variation in the meter of Old English verse, studying such linguistic variables as the treatment of West Germanic parasite vowels, contracted vowels, and short syllables under secondary and tertiary stress, as well as a variety of supposed dialect features. Fulk's study of such variables points the way to a revised understanding of the role of syllable length in the construction of early Germanic meters and furnishes criteria for distinguishing dialectal from poetic features in the language of the major Old English poetic codices. On this basis, it is possible to draw conclusions about the probable dialect origins of much verse, to delineate the characteristics of at least four discrete periods in the development of Old English meter, and with some probability to assign to them many of the longer poems, such as Genesis A, Beowulf, and the works of Cynewulf.A History of Old English Meter will be of interest to scholars of Anglo-Saxon, historians of the English language, Germanic philologists, and historical linguists.

Issued also in print.

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In English.

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