1.1 Background A lot has been written about clitics yet some corners remain unexplored.
French is the odd one out amongst other Romance languages, as its clitic objects …

This paper constitutes an empirical investigation into the diachrony of clitic climbing (and
consequently restructuring) in French based on data from a novel corpus of legal texts, as …

Historical linguistics can resort to neither recordings nor interviews of native speakers. The
only type of material that can be dissected is of a textual nature. This leads to two main …

In this article, we present a novel analysis of infinitive fronting in Old and Middle French (9th-
16th century). We find that in sentences with modal verbs and clitic climbing, the infinitive …

Notre article illustre l'utilité de la calibration générique des corpus pour l'analyse
diachronique de la langue française. Nous explorons le cas de l'antéposition stylistique de …

Le but de cette présentation est de comprendre l'évolution d'une construction syntaxique
pour 4 siècles de l'histoire du français. La construction étudiée est celle de l'infinitif et du …