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1.1 Objectives of the study |
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1.2 Texts and tokens in our Florentine corpus |
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1.3 Organization of the book |
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Chapter 2 Origins, earliest attestations and forms of the Romance personal clitic pronouns |
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2.2 Earliest attestations |
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2.2.2 Italy: non-Tuscan vernaculars |
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22 | (2) |
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24 | (1) |
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2.3.1 Third person ACC forms |
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2.3.2 First and second person DAT forms |
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2.3.2.1 First person plural no and ne |
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2.3.2.2 Second person plural vo |
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2.3.2.3 Forms found in clusters |
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2.4 Double object clitic clusters in Old Romance |
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2.4.2 Italy: non-Tuscan vernaculars |
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53 | (2) |
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2.5 Double object clitic clusters in thirteenth-century Tuscan vernaculars |
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55 | (5) |
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2.5.2 OVI data for thirteenth-century Tuscan vernaculars |
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57 | (3) |
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2.6 Double object clitic clusters in fourteenth-century Tuscan vernaculars |
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Chapter 3 The theoretical approach |
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3.1 The cognitive/functional aspects of variation and change |
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3.2 Analogy vs. Iconicity |
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3.3 Cognitive/functional features of clitic order alternation and change |
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3.4 Grammaticalization of the DAT-ACC order |
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3.5 Explanation of language variation and change in a cognitive/functionalist approach |
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Chapter 4 Pragmatic functionality of clitic order in fourteenth-century Florentine |
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4.2 The methodology of the present study |
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4.3 Significant structural features |
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4.4 Exophoric pragmatic iconicity: Empathy vs. Urgency |
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4.5 Empathy and urgency: Token analysis by text |
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4.5.1 Il Filocolo (Giovanni Boccaccio, 1338) |
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4.5.2 Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta (Giovanni Boccaccio, 1344) |
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4.5.3 Il Corbaccio (Giovanni Boccaccio, 1355) |
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4.5.4 Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio, 1370) |
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4.5.5 Lettera di Gherardino di Niccolo Gherardini Giani a Tommaso di Piero di messer Rodolfo de' Bardi (1375) |
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4.5.6 Frammenti del libro segreto di Simone di Rinieri (1380) |
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4.6 Clusters with dire `to tell, to say', diro `I will tell you' and credere `to believe' |
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4.7 Formulaic and/or idiomatic expressions |
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4.8 Summary of results and other considerations |
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Chapter 5 The demise of the ACC-DAT order and the fixation of the DAT-ACC cluster |
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5.2 Endophoric structural iconicity: Causatives, convenire `to suit; to be advisable', parere `to seem' |
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5.3 Morphological constellations and analogy: The relationship with the masculine singular definite article |
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5.4 Other analogical pressures: Phonotactics, morphological structure, and clusters with reflexives |
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162 | (6) |
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5.5 Language external factors: Borrowing from Tuscan vernaculars |
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5.6 Summary and conclusions |
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6.1 Summary of the analysis and issues for further research |
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6.2 Implications of this analysis: Language change, iconicity, and analogy |
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References |
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Index |
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