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Daten und Zahlen zur Struktur rigvedischer Metren

Scarlata, Salvatore; Widmer, Paul (2024). Daten und Zahlen zur Struktur rigvedischer Metren. Zeitschrift der deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 174(1):191-217.

Abstract

In this article we introduce and describe an easily accessible data set that contains metrical information on each Rigvedic syllable and pāda, in particular weight and position of each syllable in the pāda, transitions between adjacent syllables, and position of word boundaries within pādas. We illustrate the usefulness of this data by providing some sample summary statistics as well as an assessment of a widely assumed metrical rule, namely the correlation between the presence and absence of a caesura after syllable four and five and the weight of syllable six and seven, respectively, in trimeter pādas. Our results do not lend much support to such a rule. Based on these results we propose that the weight of the sixth syllable of trimeters is structurally determined, not contextually. We zoom in on some possible sources for conflicting evidence in production and transmission of Rigvedic hymns, most prominently interaction between pāda types and allomorphic variation.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > Department of Comparative Language Science
Dewey Decimal Classification:890 Other literatures
410 Linguistics
490 Other languages
Language:German
Date:2024
Deposited On:15 May 2024 12:52
Last Modified:05 Sep 2024 09:08
Publisher:Harrassowitz Verlag
ISSN:0341-0137
OA Status:Green
Free access at:Publisher DOI. An embargo period may apply.
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.13173/ZDMG.174.1.191
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