Italic verse
Subtitle: a study of the poetic remains of old Latin, Faliscan, and Sabellic
By: Angelo Mercado
Series: Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft -- Bd. 145; Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft -- Bd. 145.
Publisher: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Innsbruck
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
ISBN-13: 9783851247312
Subjects: Saturnian verse; Latin language; Metrics and rhythmics; Faliscan language; Sabellian languages; Italic languages and dialects
Notes: Based upon the author's thesis (Ph.D.--University of California, Los Angeles, 2006) under title: The Latin saturnian and italic verse

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: The present work in outline;; title: Part I : Latin;; title: Part II : faliscan and sabellic:; title: The (pre-) historic(al) unity of Italic;; title: Part III : Comparisons ;; title: Theoretical underpinnings : a view of linguistic metrics;; title: Metrics in synchrony : principles;; title: Methodology : evidence from statistics:; title: Fisher's exact test of independence and the ... test of goodness of fit:; title: Log-linear model ;; title: Further prolegomena;; title: Classical metrical description : key notions and terms:; title: Syllables, metrical positions, feet, and metra:; title: The metrical structure of the line;; title: (Un-) conventions:; title: Orthographie and phonological:; title: Metrical --; title: The problem of the latin saturnian.; title: The corpus of saturnian verses;; title: The literary corpus;; title: The epigraphic corpus;; title: Textual problems:; title: Literary:; title: Epigraphic ... subliterary;; title: Other verses ;; title: Expectations on metrical restrictiveness;; title: Quantitative meters;; title: An accentual meter ;; title: Some previous studies;; title: The quantitativists:; title: Pasquali 1936 and campanile 1963:; title: Cole 1969:; title: Parsons 1999:; title: Other work since 1990;; title: The accentualists:; title: Thurneysen 1885:; title: Lindsay 1893a:; title: Other work since 1990;; title: Miscellaneous approaches since 1990 --; title: The latin saturnian meter.; title: The hypothesis;; title: Assumed facts of latin phonology;; title: Textual security ;; title: Length and general structure of the line ;; title: Colon-level patterns;; title: The second colon, the saturnian's cadence:; title: 3/3 cola:; title: 2/3 cola:; title: Uniting 3/3 and 2/3 cola:; title: 4/2 cola:; title: 3/2 cola:; title: Uniting 4/2 and 3/2 cola:; title: (^) 3/3~(^) 4/2;; title: The first colon:; title: 4/3 cola:; title: 3/4 cola:; title: 5/2 cola:; title: Uniting 4/3, 3/4, and 5/2 cola:; title: # 3/3, # 2/4, and # 4/2 cola;; title: Constraining cola's substructures ;; title: Line-level patterns;; title: Thirteen-position lines:; title: 4/3 and anaclastic derivatives + 3/3:; title: 4/3 + 4/2:; title: 6//7 lines;; title: Twelve- and eleven-position lines:; title: {4/3, 3/4} + {2/3, 3/2}:; title: {3/3, 2/4} + {(^) 3/3, (^) 4/2};; title: Constraining colon combinations ;; title: The proposed saturnian meter --; title: Rules of saturnian scansion.; title: Syllabic alignment;; title: Resolution:; title: Amphibrachic cola and anaclastic derivatives:; title: Trochaic-amphibrachic cola and anaclastic derivatives:; title: Line-level regulation?;; title: Synizesis and gide formation;; title: Elidable sequences:; title: (Prod-) elision:; title: Hiatus:; title: Conditions for elision and hiatus ;; title: Accentual alignment;; title: Mismatch;; title: Long-word bridge;; title: Weak stress and the relative stress principle:; title: Secondary stress:; title: Function words:; title: The relative stress principle;; title: +Clash;; title: Minimal words:; title: Monosyllabic words:; title: Bimoraic disyllables;; title: Clitics:; title: Polysyllabic words + Enclitic -que :; title: Aleria(m)que:; title: The Case of Illic:; title: Prepositions;; title: Phrasal accentuation:; title: The placement of continuous bipartite determiner phrases within the line:; title: The placement of longer and more complex continuous DPS;; title: The proposed meter's restrictiveness --; title: Saturnian stylistics and metrical structure.; title: Soundplay;; title: Alliteration:; title: Line-internal alliteration:; title: Line-internal alliteration and metrical structure;; title: Rhyme:; title: Line-internal rhyme:; title: Line-internal rhyme and metrical structure;; title: Line-internal soundplay and metrical structure ;; title: Syntax and meter;; title: Hyperbaton;; title: Placement of clauses;; title: Enjambment ;; title: Selection of variant metrical forms;; title: The longer fragments;; title: The complete poems --; title: Problematic saturnians.; title: The lost cause of Naev. 43 ;; title: Solutions to problems within the core corpus;; title: Adjustments to colometry:; title: Andr. 20:; title: Naev. 37:; title: Naev. 38:; title: Naev. 55:; title: Naev. 61;; title: Linguistic fixes:; title: App. 2.1:; title: Andr. 28 :; title: The homeric model :; title: Anclabatur -- Anclo1? :; title: Anculabatur -- Anculo ~ Anclo2?:; title: Naev. 24.1;; title: Emendations:; title: Andr. 8:; title: Andr. 9:; title: Andr. 18.3:; title: Naev. 16:; title: Naev. 47 :; title: Linday's conjecture :; title: Another idea:; title: Naev. 60:; title: CIL I2 9.1 :; title: Stylistics of R[omai vs. R[omane(i) :; title: Scansion with R[omai vs. R[omane(i);; title: Naev. 16 : combined solutions --; title: Putative saturnians.; title: Further literary saturnians;; title: Incerti 1;; title: Incerti 4;; title: Incerti 22 ;; title: CIL 12 364, the faliscan cooks' dedication ;; title: Unmetrical;; title: CIL 12 1861, Epitaph of protogenes;; title: CIL 12 626, mummii tabula;; title: AE 1936.67, Epitaph of festio ;; title: A test of the proposed meter;; title: Quantitative-syllabic rhryhm in prose;; title: Constraints weighted in verse vs. prose:; title: Crescendo and Faithfulness(link) in verse vs. prose:; title: Decrescendo and +Acephaly in verse vs. prose ;; title: Prose or verse?;; title: Prose:; title: CIL 12 561, cista ficoroni:; title: Quinctii cincinnati tabula (Liv. 6.29.9-10);; title: Too fragmentary:; title: CIL 12 652, Sempronii tuditani tabula:; title: CIL 12 1547, epitaph of C. quinctius prothymus;; title: Verse?:; title: CIL 12 708.4-5, epitaph of C. sergius mena:; title: CIL 12 1203 = 1204 and 1205, monument of M. vergilius eurysaces:; title: Aemilii regilli tabula (Liv. 40.52.5-7) --; title: Saturnian monocola.; title: Monocolic monostichs;; title: CIL 12 580;; title: Incerti 1 ;; title: Distichs;; title: Incerti 3;; title: Incantamentum 67 Heim ;; title: Tetrasrich : Incantamentum 108 Heim ;; title: The meter ;; title: Double, double, toil and trouble, ... --; title: The latin trochaic and dactylic tetrapodies.; title: The texts;; title: Cn. marcius vates:; title: Marcius 1:; title: Marcius 3;; title: CIL vi 9583.6-8, epitaph of the hostii;; title: CIL 12 1206, epitaph of atistia;; title: Incantamenta quaedam:; title: Incerti 17:; title: Incantamentum 136 heim:; title: Incerti 16 :; title: Incerti 21 ;; title: The meters;; title: Trochaic tetrapody;; title: Dactylic tetrapody ;; title: Rules of scansion;; title: Contraction;; title: Resolution;; title: Mismatch;; title: Weak stress;; title: Monosyllables --; title: The problems in faliscan and sabellic.; title: The non-latin Italic languages and corpora;; title: Faliscan;; title: Sabellic:; title: Umbrian:; title: South picene:; title: Oscan ;; title: Approaches to non-latin Italic meter ;; title: Prosody;; title: Faliscan:; title: Syllabification and syllable weight:; title: Stress and syllable weight;; title: Sabellic;; title: Finno-ugric ;; title: Note on phonological trascription and lexical interpretation --; title: Faliscan verse.; title: LF 5;; title: Stylistics;; title: Meter:; title: Quantitative-syllabic analysis:; title: Syllabo-tonic analysis ;; title: LF 1, the "Ceres" inscription;; title: Stylistics;; title: Meter:; title: Quantitative-syllabic analysis:; title: Syllabo-tonic analysis ;; title: LF 2;; title: Stylistics;; title: Meter:; title: Quantitative-syllabic analysis:; title: Syllabo-tonic analysis ;; title: LF 3;; title: Stylistics;; title: Meter:; title: Quantitative-syllabic analysis:; title: Syllabo-tonic analysis ;; title: The faliscan metrical system;; title: Under initial accentuation;; title: Under penultimate accentuation;; title: Rules of scansion;; title: Rules of accentuation --; title: Umbrian verse --; title: South picene verse.; title: TE 2, epitaph of titos alis;; title: Stylistics;; title: Meter:; title: Quantitative-syllabic analysis:; title: Syllabo-tonic analysis ;; title: MC 1, epitaph of apaes;; title: Stylistics;; title: Meter:; title: Quantitative-syllabic analysis:; title: Syllabo-tonic analysis ;; title: AP 2, the castignano cippus;; title: 'Go here next':; title: Quantitative-syllabic analysis:; title: Syllabo-tonic analysis;; title: 'Start here' ;; title: TE 5, the stele of penna Sant'Andrea;; title: Interpretation;; title: Stylistics;; title: Meter ;; title: The south picene metrical system ;; title: Rules of scansion;; title: Accentuation and anaptyxis --; title: Oscan verse.; title: Sidicinian ;; title: Vestinian : MV 7, epitaph of saluta licina;; title: Stylistics;; title: Meter ;; title: Paelignian;; title: Pg 10, epitaph of C. anaes:; title: Stylistics:; title: Meter;; title: Pg 9, the "Herentas" inscription:; title: Punctuation:; title: Colometry:; title: Stylistics:; title: Meter ;; title: Prosodic and metrical phenomena;; title: Punctuation revisited : sandhi and syntax;; title: Monosyllabic words;; title: Secondary stress, resolution, and anaptyxis --; title: Typological plausibility and synchronic reality.; title: Typological plausibility : a parallel from classical Arabic;; title: The classical Arabic metrical system;; title: Classical Arabic : archaic italic ;; title: Synchronic reality : two examples from English;; title: The poet's conscious;; title: The speaker's unconscious;; title: Modern English : archaic italic --; title: The proto-italic metrical system?.; title: The correspondences;; title: The suprasegmenal phonologies;; title: The metrical patterns;; title: The metrical rules;; title: The comparators ;; title: Sprachbund or stammbaum?;; title: Metrical universal : four-beat verse;; title: Horizontal diffusion?;; title: Vertical transmission?:; title: Towards a theory of diachronie metrics :; title: Note on formulaics:; title: The proto-italic metrical system? :; title: Development of the Italic accent and rules of scansion ;; title: Beyond italic;; title: An Italo-celtic metrical isogloss?:; title: Old Irish verse;; title: The place of italic in Indo-European -- -- Appendices. -- The latin saturnian verses ;; title: Metrical rhythm in latin prose ---- Bibliography-- Index locorum-- Index verborum.