| (3)<\/TD> | e tu seguissi le fragili architetture<\/TD> | “would you follow the frail architectures”<\/TD><\/TR>
\n<\/table>\n
\nAt first blush, the three lines above may appear to be written in the same meter, but in fact they
\nare not. Famously, example (1) and (2) are the first two lines of Dante\u0092s Divine Comedy, and
\ninstantiate two different patterns of endecasillabo, the most common meter in the Italian tradition:
\nGenerative Metrics (Cf. Nespor & Vogel (1986)) has provided a scansion of this meter in terms of
\nan abstract iambic pattern, elaborating on Halle & Keyser (1966) proposal. Example (3) instead is
\na line from Montale\u0092s poetry, and it differs from an endecasillabo in that it has more syllables than
\nexpected. It therefore exemplifies what the metrical tradition has labelled tredecasillabo (i.e. a 13-
\nsyllable line), simply acknowledging a difference in measure. Here I am going to claim instead
\nthat such lines can be scanned as endecasillabi by applying some deletion (Δ-) rules (as proposed by Fabb & Halle (2008)). After providing the necessary specifics about scansion rules in Italian
\nmetrics, the talk will focus on the interpretation of this meter, also discussing different
\nframeworks for motivating the deletion. Beside the aforementioned Fabb & Halle (2008) modular
\napproach, they mainly include constraint-based and prosodic-constituency-based interpretations;
\nhere, I will argue for the first one to be the most appropriate.
\n<\/P>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The schedule for the rest of the term is:<\/p>\n \n- November 12: Hrayr Khanjian<\/li>\n
- November 19: Jonah Katz<\/li>\n
- December 3rd: Jen Michaels<\/li>\n
- December 10: Giorgio Magri<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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