Metre and Stress in Old Khotanese
In Sims-Williams 2022 I argued that the metre of the Old Khotanese Book of Zambasta combines quantitative and accentual principles. This conclusion has been disputed by Marco Fattori (2025), who claims that Old Khotanese metre is exclusively quantitative. In the present article I attempt to re-estab...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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Indo-Iranian journal
Year: 2025, Volume: 68, Issue: 4, Pages: 330-357 |
| Further subjects: | B
metre
B Old Khotanese poetry B Book of Zambasta B Khotanese language B ictus B Stress |
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| Summary: | In Sims-Williams 2022 I argued that the metre of the Old Khotanese Book of Zambasta combines quantitative and accentual principles. This conclusion has been disputed by Marco Fattori (2025), who claims that Old Khotanese metre is exclusively quantitative. In the present article I attempt to re-establish the role of stress, showing that Fattori’s analysis is unduly abstract and fails to account for significant features of the metrical system. |
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| ISSN: | 1572-8536 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Indo-Iranian journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15728536-06804002 |
