Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Roman Jakobson. "Grammatical Parallelism and its Russian Facet." Language, 42:99-429.

Includes a discussion of Russian oral folk poetry, "the only living oral tradition in the Indo-European world which uses grammatical parallelism as its basic mode of concatenating successive verses" (405). Discards, however, the idea that such a constraint is universally a characteristic of oral style (in tradition-dependent form).
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