> 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 erroneously doubled the N in her name.
Donegan, Patricia J. and David Stampe. 1983. Rhythm and the holistic
organization of language structure. CLS 1983: 337-353.
As I said above, CLS = Proceedings of the [n]th regional meeting
of the Chicago Linguistic Society).
Dirk is Dirk Elzinga, our eminent phonologist conlanger confrere.
--And.
> > > 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
> > >
>