出版社：Estonian Literary Museum and Estonian Folklore Institute
摘要：The article gives an overview of the uses and features of parallelismacross different genres of Estonian poetic folklore, focusing on the genres inwhich grammatical parallelism forms an important means for structuring texts.Relying on her own previous research on runosongs and short forms of folklore(Sarv 1999, 2000, 2003), the results of the syntactic analysis of runosong texts inHelle Metslang’s dissertation (1978), Juhan Peegel’s definition of poetical synonymsin runosongs (Peegel 2004), and proceeding from the concept of poeticalsystem (Sarv 2000), the author proposes a definition of the type of parallelismcanonical in the Finnic runosong tradition. Two other types of parallelism, usedin different genres of Estonian poetic folklore, are discerned on a similar basis,taking into account the relations between the elements of the poetical system.The proposed typology proceeds from the assumption that the regular use (orabsence) of euphonic means is related to the type of parallelism used. In thiscase – as the study proves – the types of parallelism are distinguished by thesemantic relations between the parallel elements (words or phrases) in grammaticallyparallel units, rather than by semantic relations between the wholeparallel units or by formal features like range or length. There appears to bea clear tendency: the use of euphony (alliteration and word-structure repetitions)in parallelism types increases in relation to the diminishing of the semantic loadof the parallel elements.
关键词：folklore; folk songs; oral poetry; parallelism; poetics; proverbs; riddles;runosong; sayings
