Diachronic Syntax

Variation versus change: Clausal clitics between Homer and Herodotus

Enclitic distribution in Greek (and archaic Indo-European generally) is governed by a set of generalizations known as Wackernagel’s Law, according to which enclitics occur in “second position.” As has long been known, surface …

Review of A. Ruppel, Absolute constructions in early Indo-European (Cambridge 2013)