Publications
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Monograph
in prep. Olivier, Marc. Clitic Placement in the History of French. In Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics. Oxford University Press (under contract).
Reviewed journal articles
in press. Olivier, Marc. Clitic placement with infinitives in the diachrony of French: from enclisis to proclisis. Journal of Historical Syntax. LingBuzz: 007544
in press. 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. Isogloss: Open Journal of Romance Linguistics.
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'évoution du français dans un corpus textuel calibé. 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.
Book chapter
in prep. 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).
Theses
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 Unpublished PhD Thesis, Ulster University.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)
Download: https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/006685
2018. Olivier, Marc. A Diachronic Study of Proclisis-Enclisis Alternation on Infinitives and Imperatives in Old French. Unpublished Master's Thesis, Ulster University.
Blog post
2020. Olivier, Marc. Change Is On Its Way. Institute of Modern Languages Research blog.
https://modernlanguagesresearch.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2020/06/11/change-is-on-its-way/