Early Tahitian Poetics
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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boston ; Berlin
De Gruyter Mouton
2013, ©2013
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| Series: | Pacific Linguistics
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- 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.