Re: Typology and verse-forms
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 5, 2004, 20:00 |
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On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 19:24:06 +0200, Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
wrote:
>> 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
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> Arabic ~ Inflecting ~ VSO ~ Length-based feet, rhyme
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Many believe that PIE had Length-based feet.
Some (e.g. Watkins, Puhvel) consider PIE poetry to be highly Alliterative,
and maybe Rhyming.
Paul