The origins of metric typology: from ‘metrotonics’ to ‘tactometrics’
One of the first Russian-language works aimed at creating a general theory of verse was Mikhail Malishevskii’s short book “Metrotonics” (1925), which offered a common theoretical frame for the whole structure of metrics. Later, some of Malishevskii’s ideas were developed by Aleksei Kviatkovskii, who proposed a unified treatment of classical and non-classical verse. Theoretics of the ‘Russian method’ in the theory of verse considered these theories unverifiable,...
Russian folk verse and the main approaches to its study
... approach. Furthermore, the degree of convergence with musicology can vary: in verse linguistics, traditional versification methods may often suffice. The approach based on counting beats holds particular promise, as it relates to the concepts of isochronic metrics, which remain underexplored in the field of Russian folk versification.
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Molitvennaya lirika russkikh poetov
[The Genre of a Prayer in the Oeuvre of Russian Poets]. Moscow (in Russ.).
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English and Russian evaluative adverbs
... Chains of quasi-synonymous words linking the adverbs are constructed. An important feature of antonyms is the fact that negatively-oriented antonyms are marked with respect to the positive ones. The different methods for the determination of semantic metrics in the Osgood’s space are described. Usage of geodesic distance between two arbitrary words enables introduction of unambiguous metrics over the set of Russian (axes X) and English (axes Y) adverbs. Coordinates of antonyms and those synonyms ...
