Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Patricia Arant. "Repetition of Prepositions in the Russian Oral Traditional Lament." Slavic and East European Journal, 16:65-73.

Examines the role of this sort of repetition in the composition of lines of oral lament verse from the Fedosova repertoire. Comments on meter, colon structure, alliteration, line types, syntactic patterns, formulas, and line clusters.
Area: RU