Human Meter and Phonology in the Boğazköy Parables.
This article addresses meter in the Human parables from Boğazköy (KBo 32.14). Bachvarova (2011) has characterized this text as having four stressed syllables pelline; others have suggested that the pattern of unstressed syllables may also contribute to the meter (e.g., Haas and Wegner 2007, Neu 1988...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the American Oriental Society Vol. 138; no. 2; pp. 227 - 254 |
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American Society for Premodern Asia (ASPA)
Apr-Jun2018
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