
Alliteration occurs in a wide variety of contexts in stress-initial languages, including Icelandic, Finnish and Mongolian. It can be found in English from Beowulf to The Sun . Nevertheless, alliteration remains an unexamined phenomenon. This pioneering volume takes alliteration...

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Key topics in the study of alliteration; J.Roper Love, Silver and the Devil: Alliteration in English Place-Names; J.Harte Alliteration in English-language Versions of Current Widespread European Idioms and Proverbs; F.C.Williams...