The Homeric Hexameter and a Basic Principle of Metrical Theory

Devine, A. M.; Stephens, Laurence D.

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“…This article challenges the often assumed but rarely tested position that syllable weight is exclusively binary in metrics (see especially Jakobson 1933 andStephens 1976 for explicit statements of this view). Case studies of four quantitative metres drawn from three language families in every case reveal sensitivity to a continuum of weight within the heavies.…”

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“…West 1970: 186, 1982: 39, 1987: 7, 22; cf. Maas 1962: §51, Irigoin 1965, Allen 1973, Devine & Stephens 1976, 1977, 1994, McLennan 1978). West makes this claim perhaps most explicit, stating in his textbooks that ‘the biceps, being of greater duration [than the longum; KR], requires more stuffing’ (West 1982: 39, 1987: 22).…”

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“…In particular, while it is possible that the hexameter template is richer than binary, as West (1970, 1982, 1987) assumes, it is also possible that the different distributions of VC and VV reflect factors unrelated to syllable weight (Devine & Stephens 1976). First, VV and VC are not identically distributed in words, and different positions of the word might be treated differently by the metre, or subject to different degrees of reduction/fortition (Devine & Stephens 1994: 74).…”

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“…The second constructor, ‘prose shuffle’, is identical to the previous one, except that it draws words from prose, namely the Caesar and Nepos corpus mentioned above. Finally, ‘prose chunks’ comprises all strings of any number of contiguous whole words from prose that scan as hexameters (on using prose phrases as a baseline to gauge metrical regulation, see Tarlinskaja & Teterina 1974, Devine & Stephens 1976, Tarlinskaja 1976, Gasparov 1980, Biggs 1996, Hall 2006, Hayes & Moore-Cantwell 2011, Bross et al 2014 and Blumenfeld 2015). 8 Only 137 such accidental hexameters are found in 55,751 words of prose.…”

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The stress–weight interface in metre

Ryan

2017

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Metres are typically classified as being accentual (mapping stress, as in English) or quantitative (mapping weight, as in Sanskrit). This article treats the less well-studied typology of hybrid accentual-quantitative metres, which fall into two classes. In the first, stress and weight map independently onto the same metre, as attested in Latin and Old Norse. In the second, stress and weight interact, such that weight is regulated more strictly for stressed than unstressed syllables, as illustrated here by new analyses of Dravidian and Finno-Ugric metres. In both of these latter cases (as well as in Serbo-Croatian), strictness of weight-mapping is modulated gradiently by stress level.

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Jacob Wackernagel, Lectures on Syntax

Langslow¹

2009

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This book offers an English version of two series of highly-acclaimed introductory lectures given by the Swiss linguist and classical philologist Jacob Wackernagel (1853–1938) at the University of Basel in 1918/19 on aspects of the morphosyntax of Greek, Latin, and the Germanic languages, and published at his students' prompting. The subjects covered — after a long introduction to the study of syntax and the parts of speech — are: number, person, voice, tense, mood, infinitive, supine and gerund, participles, case, gender, nouns and adjectives, pronouns, articles, prepositions, and negation. This is a book about grammar, but a grammar-book which talks and charms, and which makes an adventure of the workings of the classical languages. Ninety years after they were first delivered, Wackernagel's Lectures are still among the best available introductions, in any language, to Greek, Latin, and comparative syntax and to many aspects of the history, pre-history, stylistics, and socio-linguistics of Greek and Latin and their relations with other languages — not to mention other subjects brilliantly introduced, such as the history of grammatical terminology. This new edition supplements the German original by providing: a translation of all quotations and examples (and of Wackernagel's additions and corrections — both those printed at the end of the second Swiss edition and some of those left in his manuscript notes), a large number of detailed footnotes offering background information and suggestions for further reading, and a single bibliography which brings together Wackernagel's references and those in the notes.

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The Homeric Hexameter and a Basic Principle of Metrical Theory

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Gradient syllable weight and weight universals in quantitative metrics

Gradient syllable weight and weight universals in quantitative metrics

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