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Study on the position of the clitics bound to the infinite verbs in Medieval Spanish

As for the Spanish clitic position during the Medieval Era, the rules were different from what we know in the Modern language. The clitics in Modern Spanish can only follow the infinite verbal forms like infinitive, gerund o affirmative imperative whereas the Medieval clitics preceded both finite and infinite verbs with a strict condition that no tonic sentential element -noun, adverb, tonic pronoun, etc- be located before the clitics. This is due to the Wackernagel s law that the Medieval clitics were governed by the enclitic rule, which can be defined not from the morphosyntatic perspective but from the phonological one. In the structure <inflected or main verb + infinite verb>, therefore, the Medieval clitics appear normally adjuncted to the infinite verbs as well as the main verbs, so the clitic position related to infinite verbs obeys the same rule that governs clitics dependent on the finite verbs. This investigation, however, will focus on the clitics adjunct to the infinitives and gerunds directly governed by prepositions like ir a venderlo (want to sell-it), lo ir a vender (it-want to sell) or on the clitics adjunct to other infinite verbs which are coordinated by some conjunctions and continuously bound to the same preposition - ir a comprarlo y a comerlo (want to buy it and to eat-it), including the ones in the Absolute Construction where infinitives and gerunds constitute an independent adverbial phrase in the case of the absence of main verb.