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Alliteration occurs in a wide variety of contexts in stress-initial languages, including Icelandic, Finnish and Mongolian. It can be found in English from Beowulf to The Sun . Nevertheless, alliteration remains an unexamined phenomenon. This pioneering volume takes alliteration as its central focus...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Roper, Jonathan (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Subjects:
Linguistics.
Comparative Linguistics.
Historical Linguistics.
Poetry and Poetics.
Semantics.
Stylistics.
Comparative linguistics.
Historical linguistics.
Language and languages > Style.
Poetry.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Alliteration occurs in a wide variety of contexts in stress-initial languages, including Icelandic, Finnish and Mongolian. It can be found in English from Beowulf to The Sun . Nevertheless, alliteration remains an unexamined phenomenon. This pioneering volume takes alliteration as its central focus across a variety of languages and domains.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XIII, 253 pages)
ISBN:9780230305878
DOI:10.1057/9780230305878