Versatility in versification
Subtitle: multidisciplinary approaches to metrics
By: edited by Tonya Kim Dewey and Frog.
Contributors: Dewey, Tonya Kim.; Frog, 1972-; Háskóli Íslands.
Series: Berkeley insights in linguistics and semiotics -- v. 74; Berkeley insights in linguistics and semiotics -- v. 74.
Publisher: Peter Lang; Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9781433105784
Subjects: Scandinavian languages -- Versification -- Congresses; Scandinavian languages -- Rhythm -- Congresses; Germanic languages -- Versification -- Congresses; Germanic languages -- Rhythm -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Proceedings of a conference organized by the University of Iceland in collaboration with the Nordic Society for Metrical Studies, held at Reykholt in Borgarfjörður, Iceland from the 18th to the 21st of June, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface and acknowledgments / Kristján Árnason; title: Introduction / Frog & Tonya Kim Dewey; title: Early Runic 'metrical' inscriptions : how metrical are they? / Michael Schulte; title: Metrical learning and the First grammatical treatise / Güðrún Nordal; title: On Kuhn's laws and Craigie's law in Old Icelandic poetry / Kristján Árnason; title: The syntax of the verb in Old Icelandic : evidence from poetry / Thórhallur Eythórsson; title: The effect of prosody on the linear structure of adpositional phrases in Eddic verse / Tonya Kim Dewey; title: Alliteration and grammatical categories / Ragnar Ingi Aðalsteinsson; title: Old English feet / Chris Golston; title: Accents left and right / Tomas Riad; title: Formal interactions in poetic meter / Nigel Fabb; title: How Germanic features can appear in Italian metrical poetry / Stefano Versace; title: The poem as a site of inherited structures and artistic innovation / Sissel Furuseth; title: Dipod rules : Norwegian stev, paired accents and accentual poetry Jacqueline Pattison Ekgren; title: Speech-acts in skaldic verse : genre, compositional strategies and improvisation / Frog; title: No royal road : the extremes of dróttkvætt lines in Snorri's Háttatal / Helgi Skúli Kjartansson; title: Gnast and brast : on metrics, enjambment and more in two ditties in Gísla saga, the shorter version / Bergljót Soffía Kristjánsdóttir; title: Towards a theory of aesthetic rhythm / Eva Lilja; title: Index.