| Introduction | |
| Preliminaries | p. 1 |
| Phonological and metrical structures | p. 6 |
| An outline of my account | p. 6 |
| Optimality Theory | p. 15 |
| Optimality-Theoretic constraints and poetic metre | p. 20 |
| Sieversian approaches to Old English alliterative metre | p. 23 |
| Sievers (1893) | p. 23 |
| Kuhn (1933) | p. 33 |
| Bliss (1958) | p. 37 |
| The Word-Foot Theory of Russom (1987) | p. 48 |
| The case for finite verb stress | p. 52 |
| Rieger, Wackernagel, and Kuhn | p. 53 |
| Deriving the prosodic status of finite verbs from metrical placement | p. 61 |
| Alliterating verbs | p. 61 |
| Other positions | p. 62 |
| Materials and methods | p. 69 |
| The quantitative database | p. 69 |
| Critical editions | p. 74 |
| The stress phonology of Old English | |
| Introduction | p. 79 |
| Previous approaches | p. 83 |
| Was Old English word stress morphologically or phonologically conditioned? | p. 84 |
| Was Old English phonology quantity-sensitive? | p. 93 |
| What is the nature and relevance of evidence from Old English alliterative metre? | p. 97 |
| A new model of word-level stress in Old English | p. 99 |
| The constraints | p. 99 |
| ParseSyll and phonological structure | p. 100 |
| ParseSeg and FExMet | p. 103 |
| Strength and alignment | p. 104 |
| Correspondence constraints | p. 107 |
| Weight-Stress mapping | p. 109 |
| Eurhythmy constraints | p. 110 |
| Stress in Finnish | p. 111 |
| Old English | p. 116 |
| Preliminaries | p. 116 |
| Phonological and metrical evidence: Constraint re-ranking in pre-Old English | p. 117 |
| Output selection for Old English stress | p. 122 |
| Phrasal-level stress in Old English | p. 129 |
| Grammatical words | p. 129 |
| Relative prominence within sentences | p. 132 |
| Higher-order phonological categories | p. 136 |
| Phonological phrases | p. 136 |
| [Phi]Phrases in Beowulf | p. 139 |
| [Phi]Phrases and relative prominence | p. 143 |
| Intonational phrasing in Beowulf | p. 152 |
| Summary and departure | p. 156 |
| Metrical structure at the foot level | |
| Introduction | p. 161 |
| An overview of Chapter 3 | p. 162 |
| Characterizing the constraint system | p. 162 |
| The distinctiveness of poetic constraint systems | p. 162 |
| The distinctiveness of Old English alliterative metre | p. 171 |
| The nature of rhythm in the metre of Beowulf | p. 172 |
| Rendering Sievers' types | p. 173 |
| Arguments for the proposed metrical associations | p. 180 |
| The size of a metrical position and restrictions on linguistic-metrical associations | p. 180 |
| Uniformly left-strong feet | p. 191 |
| Restrictions on prosodically weak syllables | p. 195 |
| The treatment of compounds and affixes | p. 197 |
| Summary | p. 202 |
| Metrical structure at the foot level: Part II | |
| Introduction | p. 209 |
| Constraint groups and conventions | p. 209 |
| The Beowulf corpus vs. a sample of Old English prose | p. 211 |
| Further foot-level metrical constraints | p. 215 |
| Phonological constraints | p. 215 |
| Matching constraints | p. 217 |
| Constraints on Branching and Balance | p. 223 |
| BalanceMin(ft) and Kaluza's Law | p. 231 |
| Constraints on Alignment | p. 237 |
| Meta-constraints | p. 241 |
| Implementations of Boundary | p. 243 |
| Implementations of Fit | p. 251 |
| Conclusion | p. 252 |
| Metrical structure at the level of the half-line and long-line | |
| Introduction | p. 257 |
| Alliteration | p. 260 |
| Representing alliteration in the constraint system | p. 260 |
| The distribution of alliteration | p. 267 |
| Frequencies of metrical patterns: binary-branching half-lines | p. 272 |
| Introduction | p. 272 |
| Metrical ambiguity | p. 278 |
| Ambiguity within half-lines | p. 278 |
| Ambiguity between joined half-lines | p. 280 |
| Preferences among binary-branching half-lines | p. 290 |
| Frequencies of metrical patterns: ternary-branching half-lines | p. 294 |
| Balance effects | p. 296 |
| Metrical ambiguity | p. 297 |
| Conclusion | p. 301 |
| Conclusion | |
| Introduction | p. 305 |
| Summary of Chapters 1 through 5 | p. 305 |
| The realization of verb-second syntax | p. 314 |
| V2 syntax in Old English prose | p. 316 |
| V2 syntax in Beowulf | p. 318 |
| Stochastic Optimality Theory | p. 325 |
| Notes | p. 331 |
| References | p. 347 |
| Index of subjects | p. 359 |
| Index of authors | p. 365 |
| Index of verses discussed | p. 367 |
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