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- Title
Geoffrey Russom. 2017. The Evolution of Verse Structure in Old and Middle English Poetry: From the Earliest Alliterative Poems to Iambic Pentameter. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 98. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, xi + 319 pp., 42 tables, £ 67.99
- Authors
Feulner, Anna Helene
- Abstract
The article presents the discussion on clause negation. Topics include in the case of refrain the historical British database displaying only a weak tendency for negated clauses for favouring the increasingly common prepositional gerund; and rivalry between the two object variants being additionally constrained by two prosodic tendencies which being the preference for phrasal upbeats and sentence end-weight.
- Subjects
CLAUSES (Law); NEGATION (Logic); DATABASES; INTERSERVICE rivalry (Armed Forces); GERUNDS (Grammar)
- Publication
Anglia: Journal of English Philology / Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie, 2020, Vol 138, Issue 4, p699
- ISSN
0340-5222
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/ang-2020-0054