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Beowulf 501b and the authority of old English poetical manuscripts
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In his Old English grammar, A. Campbell put forward his theory of Old English accentuation, according to which disyllabic words like Bēowulf and ǣniġ receive a half-stress only if made trisyllabic by the addition of an inflection (as in Bēowulfes or ǣniġra), provided the middle syllable is heavy. A. J. Bliss tacitly rejected Campbell’s analysis when he postulated the existence of metrical type 3B2, a rare rhythmical pattern in which trisyllabic forms like Bēowulfes and ǣniġra must exceptional...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Springer Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Neophilologus Journal website
- Volume:
- 105
- Pages:
- 425-436
- Publication date:
- 2021-05-23
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-04-10
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- EISSN:
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1572-8668
- ISSN:
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0028-2677
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- English
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1170907
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- pubs:1170907
- Deposit date:
- 2021-04-12
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- Rafael J. Pascual
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- 2021
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