By Janice Aski,Cinzia Russi
This booklet examines the alternation among accusative-dative and dative-accusative order in outdated Florentine clitic clusters and its decline in want of the latter. in keeping with an exhaustive research of knowledge accrued from medieval Florentine and Tuscan texts we provide a singular research of the increase of the variable order, the transition from one order to the opposite, and the loss of life of the alternation that is predicated totally on iconicity and analogy.The bookemploys exophoric pragmatic iconicity, a language-external iconic courting in line with similarity among linguistic constitution and the speaker/writer's conceptualization of fact, and endophoric iconicity, a language-internal iconic courting the place the enduring floor is construed among linguistic symptoms and constructions. Analogy is seen as a effective method that generalizes styles or extends grammatical ideas to officially related buildings, and obtains the shape of the analogical courting among the masculine singular sure article and the 3rd individual singular accusative clitic, which shared an identical phonotactically restricted distribution styles. the information point out that exophoric pragamatic iconicity exploits and continues the alternation, while endophoric iconicity and analogy conspire to finish it.
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