Caesurae, Bridges, and the Colometry of Four Tocharian B Meters
| العنوان: | Caesurae, Bridges, and the Colometry of Four Tocharian B Meters |
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| المؤلفون: | Kevin M. Ryan, Christoph Bross, Dieter Gunkel |
| المصدر: | Indo-European Linguistics. 2:1-23 |
| بيانات النشر: | Brill, 2014. |
| سنة النشر: | 2014 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Cultural Studies, Literature, Linguistics and Language, History, Engineering, Caesura, business.industry, Corpus linguistics, Communication, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, business, Language and Linguistics |
| الوصف: | The Tocharians composed verse in hierarchical structures, with the verse dominating major cola, and the major colon in turn dominating one or more minor cola. After providing much-needed descriptive data on Tocharian meter, we assess the evidence for the distinction between major vs. minor caesurae in some of the most popular Tocharian B meters, finding support for the commonly assumed colometries in some but not all cases. Of particular interest is the recurring 4+3-syllable colon, since the violability of its internal (putatively minor) caesura varies significantly across meters. We argue that this varying strictness is indeed a function of the meter as opposed to position in the verse, verse length, idiosyncrasies of certain texts, and so forth. We then use a systematic prose comparison method to test the meters for bridges, finding evidence for monosyllable avoidance in (certain) colon-final positions, despite an overall preference for monosyllables in verse vis-à-vis prose. Finally, we discuss the implications that our study has for the restoration of fragmentary Tocharian texts. |
| تدمد: | 2212-5892 2212-5884 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::dd05a41e55ce3486fd2509e8a61d8810Test https://doi.org/10.1163/22125892-00201005Test |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi...........dd05a41e55ce3486fd2509e8a61d8810 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 22125892 22125884 |
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