Constraints on verse form and syntactic well-formedness in the cywyddau of Dafydd ap Gwilym

IF 0.6 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Language and Literature Pub Date : 2024-09-04 DOI:10.1177/09639470241273555

Calvin Quick

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Abstract

Poetry is often described as having ‘unusual syntax’. Based on a close study of nine cywydd poems by the fourteenth century Welsh poet Dafydd ap Gwilym, I identify attributive adjectives and preverbal particles as the loci of substantial departures in poetic language from the ordinary grammar of contemporary Welsh, providing an optimality theoretic analysis of the interaction between the linguistic and poetic grammars in Welsh cywyddau. I conclude that abnormally frequent noncanonical adjective ordering and omission of certain preverbal particles in poetry is a result of the domination of certain constraints on syntactic well-formedness by verse constraints.

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达菲-阿普-格维廉的诗歌形式和句法格式的限制

诗歌通常被描述为具有 "不同寻常的句法"。基于对十四世纪威尔士诗人 Dafydd ap Gwilym 的九首 cywydd 诗歌的仔细研究，我发现诗歌语言中的属性形容词和前置词粒子与当代威尔士语的普通语法有很大的不同，并对威尔士 cywyddau 中语言语法和诗歌语法之间的互动进行了最优化理论分析。我得出的结论是，诗歌中异常频繁的非规范形容词排序和某些前置词粒子的省略，是诗句约束对句法完形性的某些限制所支配的结果。

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