Early Tahitian Poetics / / David Meyer.
Tahiti has a rich history of oral tradition. Early visitors to the island transcribed recitations of myth, battle address, and land description. Until now their poetic organization has remained unexplored. From a computationally assisted analysis, this book describes early use of meter and paralleli...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Pacific Linguistics [PL] ,
641 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (446 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Tables and figures
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Meter
- Chapter 3. Sound Parallelism
- Chapter 4. Syntactic and semantic parallelism
- Chapter 5. Manner of composition
- Chapter 6. Summary and interpretation
- Chapter 7. Conclusion
- Appendix A. List of grammatical abbreviations
- Appendix B. The pattern detection process
- Appendix C. Automated method for pre- and post-1850 assignment
- References
- Index