Съдържание:
  • ""Preface""; ""List of tables""; ""Abbreviations and symbols""; ""Chapter 1 Theoretical background""; ""1.1. Four components of metrical analysis: Metrical scheme, language material, linguistic-metrical association, and actualization""; ""1.2. Manuscript, text, and meter""; ""1.3. The place of meter within a context of text production/reception""; ""1.4. Linguistic foundations of meter: Isomorphism of linguistic and metrical structure""; ""Chapter 2 Metrical types and metrical schemes""; ""2.1. Metrical types in grid representation: An introduction""
  • ""2.2. Notes on exceptional verses: Vowel parasiting, vowel contraction, too short/too long verses, and emended verses""""2.3. On reducing type D*2 to type D2: Underling versus derived positions""; ""2.4. The status of the foot""; ""2.5. The number of metrical positions in the normal verse""; ""2.6. The number of lifts in the normal verse, and the derived status of type A3""; ""2.7. The derived status of types B and C, and metrical schemes""; ""Chapter 3 The heavy drop""; ""3.1. Type A""; ""3.2. Type B""; ""3.3. Type C""; ""3.4. Type D""; ""3.5. Subtype D*""; ""3.6. Type E""
  • ""3.7. Implications for metrical types and schemes""""3.8. The hierarchy of metrical strength for the heavy drop and its possible correlation with degrees of stress in Old English""; ""3.9. Conclusion""; ""Chapter 4 The normal drop""; ""4.1. The first drop of type A1""; ""4.2. The first drop of type B""; ""4.3. The first drop of type C""; ""4.4. The first drop of type D1""; ""4.5. The first drop of type D2b""; ""4.6. The second drop of type B""; ""4.7. The second drop of type E""; ""4.8. Metrical strength of the normal drop""; ""Chapter 5 Resolution""
  • ""5.1. Resolution and individual metrical positions""""5.2. Resolution and interrelationship of metrical positions""; ""5.3. Resolution and verse distinction""; ""5.4. Resolution and morphophonological conditioning: Kaluzaâ€?s Law reconsidered""; ""5.5. Linguistic basis of resolution""; ""5.6. In defense of resolution as a significant metrical device""; ""Chapter 6 Alliteration""; ""6.1. Single versus double alliteration""; ""6.2. Lexical basis of alliteration""; ""6.3. Consonant alliteration""; ""6.4. Vowel alliteration""; ""6.5. Binder of alliteration""; ""Chapter 7 Anacrusis""
  • ""7.1. Prototypical properties of anacrusis and their explanation""""7.2. In defense of the notion of anacrusis: Critique of Hoover (1985a) and Kendall (1991)""; ""7.3. A related issue: The status of expanded type C""; ""7.4. The mechanism of anacrusis""; ""Chapter 8 The asymmetry between the a-verse and the b-verse, and the organization of the line""; ""8.1. The asymmetry between the a-verse and the b-verse""; ""8.2 The organization of the line: Unity in diversity""; ""Chapter 9 The hypermetric verse""; ""9.1. Prototypical properties of the hypermetric verse and line: An overview""