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
Format:	Article
Published:	University of Chicago Press May2013
Subjects:	Syllable (Grammar) Alliteration Fulk, R. D. Kaluza, Max Etymology Poetry (Literary form)
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Summary:	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 need for future scholarship to focus on the poetry's motley meter, be in constant development but never caught up with the times.