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Hardcover Prosody in Medieval English and Norse Book

ISBN: 0197267467

ISBN13: 9780197267462

Prosody in Medieval English and Norse

How can we reconstruct the rhythms and cadences - the prosody - of past languages? Prosody in Medieval English and Norse approaches this problem by comparing two closely related languages with a long written history in the Middle Ages. Through a series of case studies on vowel reductions and alliterative verse forms, Kaster identifies important continuities in the internal rhythmic structure of words and explores the enduring role of the bimoraic...

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