Clitic Placement and the Grammaticalization of the Future and the Conditional in Old Catalan

The romance future and conditional tenses are the result of grammaticalization Latin periphrasis, mainly cantāre habeō. In some medieval Romance languages, including Catalan, two types forms existed: synthetic (faré ‘I will do’) analytical (fer-lo he do it’). Analytical not present univerbation thus less grammaticalized than forms. work aims to study distribution diachronically. A diachronic corpus (11th c.–16th c.) was compiled serve this purpose. According syntactic restrictions clitic placement, could appear in same environments with postverbal pronouns (faré-lo Therefore, only those contexts analysed assess degree grammaticalization. Some recent works point out that more advanced eastern languages Iberian Peninsula, such as western ones. results from our confirm these differences. addition, data show another process: evolution placement towards a fixed preverbal position.