Verse constituency and the locality of alliteration
Fabb, Nigel (1999) Verse constituency and the locality of alliteration. Lingua, 108 (4). pp. 223-245. ISSN 0024-3841
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This paper formulates a generalisation about a difference between alliteration and rhyme in verse: alliteration is subject to a locality constraint which does not hold for rhyme. Alliteration holds only within a verse constituent or between adjacent verse constituents. To demonstrate this, I describe the major verse traditions which involve systematic alliteration. This discussion is placed in the context of a more general account of a distinction between inherent form (exemplified by linguistic form, and possibly some kinds of metrical form) and communicated form (a self-description licensed by evidence provided by the text). Though it is subject to a locality constraint (reminiscent in some ways of a linguistic constraint), alliteration is nevertheless an instance of communicated form.
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Fabb, Nigel ![]() | Item type: | Article |
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ID code: | 40005 |
Keywords: | alliteration, form, meter, Language and Literature, Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics |
Subjects: | Language and Literature |
Department: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Humanities > English |
Depositing user: | Pure Administrator |
Date deposited: | 13 Jun 2012 09:08 |
Last modified: | 20 Jan 2021 20:09 |
URI: | https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/40005 |
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