Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Preliminaries
  • 1.2. Phonological and metrical structures
  • 1.3. Sieversian approaches to Old English alliterative metre
  • 1.4. The case for finite verb stress
  • 1.5. Materials and methods
  • Chapter 2. The stress phonology of Old English
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. Previous approaches
  • 2.3. A new model of word-level stress in Old English
  • 2.4. Phrasal-level stress in Old English
  • 2.5. Summary and departure
  • Chapter
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. Arguments for the proposed metrical associations
  • 3.3. Summary
  • Chapter 4. Metrical structure at the foot level: Part II4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. Further foot-level metrical constraints
  • 4.3. Conclusion
  • Chapter 5. Metrical structure at the level of the half-line and long-line
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. Alliteration
  • 5.3. Frequencies of metrical patterns: binary-branching half-lines
  • 5.4. Frequencies of metrical patterns: ternary-branching half-lines
  • 5.5. Conclusion
  • Chapter 6. Conclusion
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. Summary of Chapters 1 through 5
  • 6.3. The realization of verb-second syntax
  • 6.4. Stochastic Optimality TheoryNotes
  • References
  • Index of subjects
  • Index of authors
  • Index of verses discussed