Table of contents ; Acknowledgements ; List of tables ; List of abbreviations ; Chapter 1. Introduction ; 1.1 Objectives of the study ; 1.2 Texts and tokens in our Florentine corpus ; 1.3 Organization of the book
Chapter 2. Origins, earliest attestations and forms of the Romance personal clitic pronouns 2.1 Origins ; 2.2 Earliest attestations ; 2.2.1 Outside Italy ; 2.2.2 Italy: non-Tuscan vernaculars ; 2.2.3 Tuscan vernaculars ; 2.3 Forms ; 2.3.1 Third person acc forms
2.3.2 First and second person dat forms 2.3.2.1 First person plural no and ne ; 2.3.2.2 Second person plural vo ; 2.3.2.3 Forms found in clusters ; 2.4 Double object clitic clusters in Old Romance ; 2.4.1 Outside Italy ; 2.4.2 Italy: non-Tuscan vernaculars
2.5 Double object clitic clusters in thirteenth-century Tuscan vernaculars 2.5.1 Previous accounts ; 2.5.2 OVI data for thirteenth-century Tuscan vernaculars ; 2.6 Double object clitic clusters in fourteenth-century Tuscan vernaculars ; 2.7 Summary ; Chapter 3. The theoretical approach
3.1 The cognitive/functional aspects of variation and change 3.2 Analogy vs. Iconicity ; 3.3 Cognitive/functional features of clitic order alternation and change ; 3.3.1 Iconicity ; 3.3.2 Analogy ; 3.4 Grammaticalization of the dat-acc order
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
