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This paper offers a variationist analysis of object and adverbial clitic position in coordinated affirmative verb-first main declaratives introduced by “and” in Old Occitan. In this context, clitics occur in either preverbal ( “and clothed him”) or postverbal position ( “and pardoned him”). Following recent work on Medieval Romance coordination, I posit that proclitic and enclitic examples reflect different coordination structures at the underlying syntactic level. Data from complete analyses of five major 13th- and 14th-century texts, analyzed in a variationist approach using logistic regression, reveal that the choice between coordination structures – and hence, between proclisis and enclisis – is principled rather than random and depends on the degree of continuity or rupture/discontinuity between the conjuncts.

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Clitic position in Old Occitan affirmative verb-first declaratives coordinated by e
Journal of Historical Linguistics 10, 389 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.19002.don
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