CONTENTS
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Preface
Introduction
Argument
The text
A. Manuscript features
(1) The alphabetic symbols
(2) Other distinctive symbols
(3) Spacing between letter-strings
B. Editorial additions
(1) Identification of verse lines
(2) Marking ends of verses
(3) Marking section (fitt) numbers
(4) Marking vowel length
(5) Marking emendations
(6) Reconstructed MS readings
(7) Marking morph boundaries
The measure of spacing
(1) Scale of measure
(2) Scribal corrections
(3) Pointing
(4) Letter shapes and spacing
The "writing" of spacing
The appendices
The printed text and the electronic text
BEOWULF
Appendices
Appendix I. Spacing at other than morpheme boundary
Appendix II. Spacing at morpheme boundary: phonology
Appendix III. Spacing at morpheme boundary: measure
Appendix IV. Spacing among prosodic groups of words
Acknowledgements & Contact Information
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