Alliterating Word-Pairs in Old High German: Approaching a Rhetorical Evaluation
John M. Jeep
A survey of the Old High German texts provides a number significant finds relating to early use, frequency, and distribution alliterating word-pairs. In presentation analysis selected data, parameters for addressing more complete rhetorical evaluation phraseologisms as they appear in are outlined, with consideration issues such transmission, source influence, genre, dialect. Contours history word-pair presented, while perspectives further research sketched. An appendix lists entire corpus
American journal of Germanic linguistics and literatures