Publications

BOOK

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

THESES

2. 2022. Olivier, Marc. A Corpus Study of Clitic Placement with Infinitives in the Diachrony of French. Unpublished PhD Thesis, Ulster University.

Scholarship: Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship

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 

3. 2018. Olivier, Marc. A Diachronic Study of Proclisis-Enclisis Alternation on Infinitives and Imperatives in Old French. Unpublished Master's Thesis, Ulster University.

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

4. in prep. Olivier, Marc. Auxiliary switch in the diachrony of French.

5. in prep. Olivier, Marc and Anna Paradís. A tripartition of complementizers: exploring clause size in Romance. Adina Dragomirescu and Alexandru Nicolae (eds.) Theoretical and Empirical issues in the study of clause size. Special issue of Revue Roumaine de Linguistique.

6. Accepted - in press. Olivier, Marc. A syntactic account of auxiliary selection in French. Probus. 

7. 2025. Olivier, Marc. Clitic placement with infinitives in the diachrony of French: from enclisis to proclisis. Journal of Historical Syntax. DOI: 10.18148/hs/2025.v9i2-10.212

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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  

11. 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

12. 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

13. in prep. Paradís, Anna and Marc Olivier. Restructuring in the Gallo-/Ibero-Romance continuum. Adam Ledgeway and Norma Schifano (eds.) Morphosyntactic variation and change under contact: case studies from Romance. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

14. in prep. Paradís, Anna and Marc Olivier. Tobler-Mussafia dynamics in southern Gallo-Romance. Mar Garachana and Andrey Sentí (eds.) Ibero- and Gallo-Romance through time. Varieties, language change and contact. Berlin: De Gruyter.

EDITION OF SPECIAL ISSUES

15. in prep. Pujol i Campeny, Afra and Marc Olivier. Crosslinguistic perspectives on syntactic change in the diachrony of Romance. Special issue of Catalan Journal of Linguistics.

16. in prep. Olivier, Marc and Anna Paradis. Researching Occitan in the 21st Century: apròchas e perspectivas. Special issue of Revue Romane.

BOOK REVIEW

17. 2025. Mathieu Goux / Pascale Mounier (ed.), La corrélation en diachronie longue (1450-1800), Paris, Honoré Champion, 2023, 354 pages. In Revue de Linguistique Romane.

BLOG POST

18. 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/