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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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Abstract

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.

Author(s):Fabb, Nigel
Item type:Article
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:10 May 2019 02:20
URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/40005
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