Language and Meter
Published on 3. May 2018
Book
Hardback
442 pages
978-90-04-35776-1 (ISBN)
Description
In Language and Meter, Dieter Gunkel and Olav Hackstein unite fifteen linguistic studies on a variety of poetic traditions, including the Homeric epics, the hieratic hymns of the ?gveda, the Gathas of the Avesta, early Latin and the Sabellic compositions, Germanic alliterative verse, Insular Celtic court poetry, and Tocharian metrical texts. The studies treat a broad range of topics, including the prehistory of the hexameter, the nature of Homeric formulae, the structure of Vedic verse, rhythm in the Gathas, and the relationship between Germanic and Celtic poetic traditions. The volume contributes to our understanding of the relationship between language and poetic form, and how they change over time.
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Series
Edition
approx. x, 343 pp., index
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
10 s/w Tabellen, 3 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
10 Tables, black and white; 3 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
699 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-35776-1 (9789004357761)
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Dieter Gunkel is Assistant Professor of Historical Linguistics at the University of Richmond. He earned his Ph.D. in Indo-European Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles (2010), and held the position of Akademischer Rat in Historical and Indo-European Linguistics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen (2010-2017). He has published on various topics in Indo-European Linguistics, including prosody and meter in ancient Greek, Vedic Sanskrit, and Tocharian.
Olav Hackstein (Dr. phil. 1993, Universitaet Freiburg im Breisgau; Habilitation 1999, Universitaet Halle an der Saale) held positions in Historical and Indo-European linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (visiting lecturer, 1989), and the Martin-Luther-Universitaet Halle-Wittenberg (1994 Assistant Professor, 1999 Associate Professor). Since 2008 he has been full professor, and chair in Historical and Indo-European Linguistics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen.
Contributors are:
Olav Hackstein (Dr. phil. 1993, Universitaet Freiburg im Breisgau; Habilitation 1999, Universitaet Halle an der Saale) held positions in Historical and Indo-European linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (visiting lecturer, 1989), and the Martin-Luther-Universitaet Halle-Wittenberg (1994 Assistant Professor, 1999 Associate Professor). Since 2008 he has been full professor, and chair in Historical and Indo-European Linguistics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen.
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