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 …

This article presents an analysis of the evolution of clitic placement with infinitives in French.
Quantitative data taken from a corpus covering French from the mid-12th to the mid-19th …