Di alcune eccezioni alla legge Tobler-Mussafia

The article studies a particular type of exceptions to the Tobler-Mussafia law in Old Italian vernaculars, namely those cases in which we have enclisis and not proclisis at the beginning of a sentence coordinated with the previous one through the conjunction "e". First of all, it is noted that proclisis under such conditions is absent in southern texts, modestly attested in Tuscan texts, and finally relatively more frequent in northern texts. As regards the genesis of the anteposition of the clitic to the verb after "e", two significant factors are identified: in the case of a single clitic, the relevance of a parallelistic context («in fretta lo diroçça e lo gastiga») ; in the case of a sequence of two clitics, the prosodic transcategorization (from unstressed to tonic) of the first clitic.