Iconicity and Analogy in Language Change
( Studies in Language Change SLC )
Publication series ：Studies in Language Change SLC
Author： Aski Janice;Russi Cinzia;
Publisher： De Gruyter Mouton
Publication year： 2015
E-ISBN: 9781614516392
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9781614517528
Subject： H772 Italian
Keyword： 语言学
Language： ENG
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Description
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.