Screen LibraryIconicity and analogy in language change : the development of double object clitic clusters from medieval Florentine to modern Italian /
This book examines the alternation between accusative-dative and dative-accusative order in Old Florentine clitic clusters and its decline in favor of the latter. Based on an exhaustive analysis of data from medieval Florentine and Tuscan texts, this volume offers a novel analysis of the rise of the...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2015] ©2015 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Studies in language change [slc];
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| Summary: |
This book examines the alternation between accusative-dative and dative-accusative order in Old Florentine clitic clusters and its decline in favor of the latter. Based on an exhaustive analysis of data from medieval Florentine and Tuscan texts, this volume offers a novel analysis of the rise of the variable order, the transition from one order to the other, and the demise of the alternation that relies primarily on iconicity and analogy. |
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1 online resource (xiv,192pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9781614516392 |
| Index Number: | PC1261 |
| CLC: | H772 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- List of tables -- List of abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Origins, earliest attestations and forms of the Romance personal clitic pronouns -- Chapter 3. The theoretical approach -- Chapter 4. Pragmatic functionality of clitic order in fourteenth-century Florentine -- Chapter 5. The demise of the ACC-DAT order and the fixation of the DAT-ACC cluster -- Chapter 6. Conclusions -- References -- Index. |