Topics in English Linguistics

A Constraint-Based Approach

By: Michael Getty

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Hardcover | 24 October 2002

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"As an overarching approach to the meter of Beowulf, this book is intriguing, interesting, and thougth-provoking."
B. R. Hutcheson in: Journal of English and Germanic Philology 10/2004

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Introduction
Preliminaries	p. 1
Phonological and metrical structures	p. 6
An outline of my account	p. 6
Optimality Theory	p. 15
Optimality-Theoretic constraints and poetic metre	p. 20
Sieversian approaches to Old English alliterative metre	p. 23
Sievers (1893)	p. 23
Kuhn (1933)	p. 33
Bliss (1958)	p. 37
The Word-Foot Theory of Russom (1987)	p. 48
The case for finite verb stress	p. 52
Rieger, Wackernagel, and Kuhn	p. 53
Deriving the prosodic status of finite verbs from metrical placement	p. 61
Alliterating verbs	p. 61
Other positions	p. 62
Materials and methods	p. 69
The quantitative database	p. 69
Critical editions	p. 74
The stress phonology of Old English
Introduction	p. 79
Previous approaches	p. 83
Was Old English word stress morphologically or phonologically conditioned?	p. 84
Was Old English phonology quantity-sensitive?	p. 93
What is the nature and relevance of evidence from Old English alliterative metre?	p. 97
A new model of word-level stress in Old English	p. 99
The constraints	p. 99
ParseSyll and phonological structure	p. 100
ParseSeg and FExMet	p. 103
Strength and alignment	p. 104
Correspondence constraints	p. 107
Weight-Stress mapping	p. 109
Eurhythmy constraints	p. 110
Stress in Finnish	p. 111
Old English	p. 116
Preliminaries	p. 116
Phonological and metrical evidence: Constraint re-ranking in pre-Old English	p. 117
Output selection for Old English stress	p. 122
Phrasal-level stress in Old English	p. 129
Grammatical words	p. 129
Relative prominence within sentences	p. 132
Higher-order phonological categories	p. 136
Phonological phrases	p. 136
[Phi]Phrases in Beowulf	p. 139
[Phi]Phrases and relative prominence	p. 143
Intonational phrasing in Beowulf	p. 152
Summary and departure	p. 156
Metrical structure at the foot level
Introduction	p. 161
An overview of Chapter 3	p. 162
Characterizing the constraint system	p. 162
The distinctiveness of poetic constraint systems	p. 162
The distinctiveness of Old English alliterative metre	p. 171
The nature of rhythm in the metre of Beowulf	p. 172
Rendering Sievers' types	p. 173
Arguments for the proposed metrical associations	p. 180
The size of a metrical position and restrictions on linguistic-metrical associations	p. 180
Uniformly left-strong feet	p. 191
Restrictions on prosodically weak syllables	p. 195
The treatment of compounds and affixes	p. 197
Summary	p. 202
Metrical structure at the foot level: Part II
Introduction	p. 209
Constraint groups and conventions	p. 209
The Beowulf corpus vs. a sample of Old English prose	p. 211
Further foot-level metrical constraints	p. 215
Phonological constraints	p. 215
Matching constraints	p. 217
Constraints on Branching and Balance	p. 223
BalanceMin(ft) and Kaluza's Law	p. 231
Constraints on Alignment	p. 237
Meta-constraints	p. 241
Implementations of Boundary	p. 243
Implementations of Fit	p. 251
Conclusion	p. 252
Metrical structure at the level of the half-line and long-line
Introduction	p. 257
Alliteration	p. 260
Representing alliteration in the constraint system	p. 260
The distribution of alliteration	p. 267
Frequencies of metrical patterns: binary-branching half-lines	p. 272
Introduction	p. 272
Metrical ambiguity	p. 278
Ambiguity within half-lines	p. 278
Ambiguity between joined half-lines	p. 280
Preferences among binary-branching half-lines	p. 290
Frequencies of metrical patterns: ternary-branching half-lines	p. 294
Balance effects	p. 296
Metrical ambiguity	p. 297
Conclusion	p. 301
Conclusion
Introduction	p. 305
Summary of Chapters 1 through 5	p. 305
The realization of verb-second syntax	p. 314
V2 syntax in Old English prose	p. 316
V2 syntax in Beowulf	p. 318
Stochastic Optimality Theory	p. 325
Notes	p. 331
References	p. 347
Index of subjects	p. 359
Index of authors	p. 365
Index of verses discussed	p. 367
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