The Partial-Contact Origins of English Pentameter Verse : The Anglicization of an Italian Model
- Author / Editor
- Stockwell, Robert P, and Donka Minkova.
The Partial-Contact Origins of English Pentameter Verse : The Anglicization of an Italian Model
- Published
- Dieter Kastovsky and Arthur Mettinger, eds. Language Contact in the History of English (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2001), pp. 337-62.
- Description
- Stockwell and Minkova argue that Chaucer's prosodic innovation is rooted in his familiarity with the "Romance decasyllabic model." The article focuses on duple and triple rhythmic units, suggesting that Chaucer imposed native iambic rhythm on romance models found in Petrarch and Boccaccio.
- Alternative Title
- Language Contact in the History of English.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.