Re: Typology and verse-forms

At 14:44 04/03/2004 +0000, you wrote:
>Peter Bleackley:
> > I was wondering whether there was any correlation between the typology of
>a
> > language and the verse-forms it employs.
>
>The is a programmatic but fascinating article on this by Patricia
>Donnegan and David Stampe in CLS (Proc. of the nth regional meeting
>of the Chicago Linguistic Society) from c. 1983. For the full
>reference, I suggest either Google or Dirk; each is pretty reliable!
>
>Dirk might also know whether Donnegan & Stampe took that work further
>subsequently.
Alas, "Donnegan Stampe" is a GoogleWhack, and leads not to the desired
reference, but to an article about Sprachbund in SE Asia written by someone
else entirely. Of Dirk I know nothing.

> > I'll start a list of languages.
> > Please contribute with corrections and additions, and we'll see if any
> > pattern emerges.
>
>D & S did claim there to be correlations of this sort. Definitely
>worth ordering by ILL if you're interested.
>
>--And.
>
> > Language Mechanism Word order Verse-form
> >
> > Modern English Mixed SVO Stress-based feet
> > French Mixed SVO Syllable counting
> > Latin Inflecting SOV Length-based feet
> > Japanese Agglutinating SOV Syllable counting
> > Hebrew Inflecting VSO Parallelism
> > Historical Germanic Inflecting SVO Alliterative verse
> >
> > Please stick to natlangs for the time being. We can discuss implications
> > for our conlangs later.
> >
> > Pete
> >

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