LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 10 October 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Perception of Syntactic Deviations in Poetry - A Study of William Blake’s Songs of Innocence

R. Ashok Kumar, M.A., M.Phil. (Linguistics), M.A. (English), B.Ed.

General Aim of the Study

The present study is concerned with the aspects of syntax which help us to comprehend poetic lines. Poetry employs language which drifts apart from the normal language.

Example: Piping down the valley wild.

Here, the PP ‘down the valley wild’ contains a DP ‘the valley wild’. Within the DP we have an NP ‘valley wild’. The words ‘valley’ and ‘wild’ belong respectively to N and A categories.

This combination is not permitted in normal language, hence considered deviant. The normal acceptable sequence reads:

Down      the      wild      valley.
Preposition      Determiner      Adjective      Noun

Specific Aims of the Study

The present work tries to explain how we perceive the deviant examples, that is, above mentioned structures. This also helps us to learn why we don’t misinterpret the above examples with similar structures of our language.

Research Questions

1. What is the position of Adjective in Blake’s stylistic deviations?
2. How is it syntactically different from Complex Transitive Verbal Constructions?
3. Is there any test to distinguish the difference between them?

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R. Ashok Kumar, M.A., M.Phil. (Linguistics), M.A. (English), B.Ed.
Ph.D. Scholar
Department of Linguistics and Foreign Culture
S.V. University
Tirupati
Andhra Pradesh
India
ashokr.yogi@gmail.com
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