
A History of Old English Meter
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- Cover
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- WORKS FREQUENTLY CITED
- INTRODUCTION
- A. The State of Scholarship (§§1-7)
- B Probability, Proof, and the Nature of Linguistic Argumentation
- C. The Causes of Inconsistency in Chronological Findings
- D. Postulates of the Present Study
- CHAPTER I. WEST GERMANIC PARASITING
- CHAPTER II . CONTRACTION
- A. Varieties of Contraction and the Conclusions of Prior Studies (§§99-102)
- B. Loss of Intervocalic h (§§103-6)
- C. The Verba Pura (§§107-14)
- D. Loss of Intervocalic j (§§115-18)
- E. Loss of Intervocalic w (§§119-21)
- F. Summary and Analysis (§§122-30)
- CHAPTER III. CONTRACTION IN NEGATED VERBS AND INDEFINITE PRONOUNS
- CHAPTER IV. COMPENSATORY LENGTHENING UPON LOSS OF h
- CHAPTER V. ANALOGICAL LENGTHENING IN DIPHTHONGAL STEMS
- CHAPTER VI. KALUZA'S LAW
- CHAPTER VII. CHANGES IN ICTUS AT THE TERTIARY LEVEL
- A. The Nature of Tertiary Stress and Its Relation to Chronology (§§184-86)
- B. Phonological Evidence for Tertiary Stress
- C. Light Verses
- D. Metrical Evidence for Tertiary Stress
- E. Chronological Implications (§§215-20)
- F. The Rule of the Coda
- G. The Domain of the Rule of the Coda and Bliss's Theory of the Caesura
- H. Ictus as Stress or Length
- I. Summary of Chronological Findings (§§269-70)
- CHAPTER VIII. ICTUS AND RESOLUTION IN NONFINAL POSITION
- CHAPTER IX. MISCELLANEOUS PROPOSED CHRONOLOGICAL VARIABLES
- CHAPTER X . LATE DEVELOPMENTS
- CHAPTER XI. SYNCOPATED ENDINGS OF LONG-STEMMED VERBS AND OTHER PRESUMED INDICATORS OF DIALECT ORIGINS
- CONCLUSION: RELATIVE AND ABSOLUTE DATING
- A. Summary of the Evidence for a Chronology (§§376-78)
- B. Dating and Localizing Cynewulf by His Rhymes and Runic Signatures
- C. Establishing a Terminus a Quo for the Longer Poems: Dating the Sound Changes
- D. Dating Beowulf by Kaluza's Law
- APPENDIX A: CHRONOLOGY AND DIALECT IN THE REMAINING LONGER POEMS
- APPENDIX B: THE DATE OF THE BATTLE OF MALDON
- APPENDIX C: LONG AND SHORT INFLECTIONAL SYLLABLES
- APPENDIX D: DATING THE EARLY BEDE MANUSCRIPTS
- INDEX OF WORDS
- Proto-Indo-European
- Sanskrit
- Greek
- Old Prussian
- Lithuanian
- Old Church Slavonic
- Latin
- Celtic
- Proto-Germanic
- Gothic
- North Germanic
- Old Icelandic/ Old Norse
- Modern Icelandic
- West Germanic, Ingvaeonic, Anglo-Frisian, and Prehistoric English
- Old High German
- New High German
- Old Saxon
- Old Frisian
- Middle Dutch
- Old English
- Middle English
- Modern English
- INDEX OF VERSES
- OLD ICELANDIC
- OLD SAXON
- OLD ENGLISH
- INDEX OF AUTHORITIES
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
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- P
- Q
- R
- S
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- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z
- INDEX OF SUBJECTS
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
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