Clitic climbing and restructuring in the history of French

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 well as a theoretical analysis of the loss of this phenomenon from the history of French. We show that clitic climbi...

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Main Authors: Olivier, M, Sevdali, C, Folli, R
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2023