Phantom Syllables in the English Alliterative Tradition.

The article discusses phantom syllables in Old and Middle English alliteration. R. D. Fulk amended the 1896 comments by Max Kaluza on a link between etymology and metrical resolution in Old English verse, which enabled later scholars to assume the significance of final -e. The author says there is a...

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Published in:Modern Philology Vol. 110; no. 4; pp. 441 - 459
Main Author: Weiskott, Eric
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Published: University of Chicago Press May2013
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