Verse Structure and Literary Tradition: The Interaction Between Rhyme and Stress in the Onegin Stanza

tatiana nikitina is a Researcher at the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique. She has published numerous articles on the grammar of West African languages and cross-linguistic variation in the encoding of space and person. Her current work focuses on the applications of statistical and experimental methods to the study of grammar and stylistic variation.

boris maslov is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Pindar and the Emergence of Literature (Cambridge UP, 2015), as well as of articles on the history of literary theory, the reception of Ancient Greek lyric, and comparative historical semantics.