Publications

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- Under contract. Olivier, Marc. Clitic Placement in the History of French. In Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics. Oxford University Press.

- In preparation. Olivier, Marc. Restructuring, clause structure, and transparency effects in Modern French.

- Submitted - under peer-reviewing. Olivier, Marc. Auxiliary selection in French.

- Submitted - under peer-reviewing. Olivier, Marc. Stressed proclitics in Medieval French?

- Accepted - in press. Olivier, Marc. Clitic placement with infinitives in the diachrony of French: from enclisis to proclisis. Journal of Historical Syntax. LingBuzz: 007544
- 2024. Olivier, Marc, Sevdali, Christina, & Raffaella Folli. Infinitive fronting as a transparency effect in Old and Middle French. In New perspectives on the syntax of causative and restructuring verbs in Romance, eds. Jan Casalicchio & Peter Herbeck. Special issue of Isogloss: Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 10(4)/10. pp. 1–27. DOI: 10.5565/rev/isogloss.314
- 2023. Olivier, Marc, Sevdali, Christina, & Raffaella Folli. Clitic climbing and restructuring in the history of French. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 8(1). pp. 1–45. DOI: 10.16995/glossa.10135
- 2022. Olivier, Marc. Diachronie de la proclise et de l'enclise avec l'infinitif en français médiéval (12e-15e s.). In Le temps long: l'évolution du français dans un corpus textuel calibré. Le témoignage de la coutume de Normandie, ed. Mathieu Goux. Studia Linguistica Romanica 8, pp. 10-35. DOI: 10.25364 /19.2022.8.2
- 2021. Olivier, Marc. Language in time: assessing Medieval French registers in a quest for accuracy in historical linguistics. French Studies Bulletin 42(159), pp. 23-27. DOI: 10.1093/frebul/ktab012

- 2019. Olivier, Marc. From Old French to French: Language as a Living Puzzle. Intersections (Postgraduate Journal - Arts , Humanities , Social Sciences) 1(1), pp. 40-43.

- In preparation. Danckaert, Lieven, & Marc Olivier. Causative and perception constructions. Bridging the gap between Late Latin and Early Old French. Anne Carlier, Lieven Danckaert, Céline Guillot-Barbance, Maria Selig and Jasper Vangaever (eds).

2022. Olivier, Marc. A Corpus Study of Clitic Placement with Infinitives in the Diachrony of French. Unpublished PhD Thesis, Ulster University.

Award: Best research project being undertaken by a doctoral student in a Higher Education institution on the island of Ireland (ADEFFI 2020)

2018. Olivier, Marc. A Diachronic Study of Proclisis-Enclisis Alternation on Infinitives and Imperatives in Old French. Unpublished Master's Thesis, Ulster University.

- 2020. Olivier, Marc. Change Is On Its Way. Institute of Modern Languages Research blog.