Some influential studies about medieval northern Italian dialects argue that if a subject pronoun occupies the first position in a sentence it should not be regarded as clitic, because of the Tobler Mussafia law. However, evidence suggests that Tobler Mussafia law did not apply to subject clitic pronouns, but only to object ones. It is therefore worth inquiring when a subject pronoun may be seen as clitic in medieval northern Italian dialects: four criteria are set forth.
Colombo, M., Una precisazione a proposito della legge Tobler Mussafia e dei pronomi clitici soggetto, <<ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR ROMANISCHE PHILOLOGIE>>, 2018; (134): 197-218. [doi:10.1515/zrp-2018-0008] [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/116806]
Una precisazione a proposito della legge Tobler Mussafia e dei pronomi clitici soggetto
Colombo, Michele
2018
Abstract
Some influential studies about medieval northern Italian dialects argue that if a subject pronoun occupies the first position in a sentence it should not be regarded as clitic, because of the Tobler Mussafia law. However, evidence suggests that Tobler Mussafia law did not apply to subject clitic pronouns, but only to object ones. It is therefore worth inquiring when a subject pronoun may be seen as clitic in medieval northern Italian dialects: four criteria are set forth.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.