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Introduction / Judith Jefferson And Ad Putter -- The Metre Which Does Not Measure: The Function Of Alliteration In Middle English Alliterative Poetry / Jeremy Smith -- Alliteration And Prosody In Old And Middle English / Elizabeth Solopova -- Some Unnoticed Constraints On The A-verse In Sir Gawain And The Green Knight / Geoffrey Russom -- To/for To + Infinitive And The Long Medial Dip In The A-verse / Noriko Inoue -- Diagnostics Of Metricality In Middle English Alliterative Verse / Donka Minkova -- For All This Werlde Ryche: Syntactic Inversion As Evidence For Metrical Principles In The Alliterative Morte Arthure / Gilbert Youmans -- On Final -e In The B-verses Of Sir Gawain And The Green Knight / Nicolay Yakovlev -- Notes On The Metre Of Piers Plowman: Twenty Years On / Hoyt N. Duggan -- Some Prosodic Observations On The Peculiar Metric Of Pearl / Alan Gaylord -- Foreign Influence, Native Continuation, And Metrical Typology In Alliterative Lyrics / Thomas Cable -- Measuring Discourse: The Fourteenth-century Alliterative Long Line As A Two-tier System / Ronald Waldron -- Metre And Emendation: Sir Gawain And The Green Knight 660b And 815b / Nyra Stokes -- Alliterative Metre And Editorial Practice: The Case Of Death And Liffe / Judith Jefferson And Ad Putter. Edited By Judith Jefferson And Ad Putter. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [292]-307).