10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SYLLABISM»
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syllabism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society
Accordingly Verner's Law was to be explained by a syllabism represented by brd-
thar, mod-dr. This involves the assumption that as little consonantal sound as
possible went to an accented syllable in Old Teutonic. There are some
indications ...
2
PCPS, Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society
The theory of syllabism in connection with accent which is proposed seems to
suggest the following system. 1. Boot elements beginning and ending with a
consonant may be divided if followed by a vowel. 2. Root elements beginning
with a ...
3
Indo-Germanic Sonants and Consonants: Chapters on ...
The influence of normal forms such as vdc-as, tej-ase, vdc, ydj, yunj, vdc-ya, may
have affected conjugational forms, the syllabism of which was probably variable
owing to their being sometimes enclitic, sometimes tonic, so that the normal tonic
...
Charles Augustus Maude Fennell, 1895
4
Relliquiae Philologicae Or Essays in Comparative Philology
Dr Fennell rejects the theory that accent is the disturbing influence and
substitutes for it syllabism. The coincidence between the observed facts and the
accentuation in Sanskrit he proceeds to account for by the hypothesis that
accented ...
Herbert Dukinfield Darbishire, R. S. Conway
But first Some observations about syllabism generally and about some of the
problems it raises for interpretation. Counting syllables alone in constructing lines
of verse is so conventional as to seem natural in languages without tonic stress ...
Dr Fennell rejects the theory that accent is the disturbing influence and
substitutes for it syllabism. The coincidence between the observed facts and the
accentuation in Sanskrit he proceeds to account for by the hypothesis that
accented ...
7
Towards a Typology of Poetic Forms: From Language to Metrics ...
Given that these compositions are intended to be sung, the syllabism of the text is
less certain than that of poetic texts intended for recitation. Submitting the texts of
songs to the norms of syllabism in Spanish poetry results in numerous such ...
Jean-Louis Aroui, Andy Arleo, 2009
8
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
As Martin Duffell observes, “in the verse traditions of most languages syllabism
came to be compounded or replaced by the regulation of some other
suprasegmental feature, such as duration/weight (as in Sanskrit and Ancient
Greek), pitch (as ...
Roland Greene, Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, 2012
9
Meter in English: A Critical Engagement
Decisively, however, Romance syllabism had no way at all to account for patterns
of English stress; so it yielded to foot-meter as the determining theory of English
verse. It is hard to tell, looking back across that divide, how Romance syllabism ...
10
Historical-critical Introduction to the Philosophy of ...
... di-syllabism, to an entirely unfettered polysyllabism. Monosyllabism preserves
the word in its pure substance, and there, where monosyllabsim itself appears as
principle, we will be unable to refrain from presupposing an arresting principle ...
