L. Balon and . Larrivée, L'ancien français n'est déjà plus une langue à sujet nul. Nouveau témoignage des textes légaux, Journal of French Language Studies, vol.26, issue.2, pp.221-237, 2016.

P. Benincà, A detailed map of the left periphery of medieval Romance, Crosslinguistic research in syntax and semantics: Negation, tense, and clausal architecture, pp.53-86, 2006.

B. J. Birner, Semantic and pragmatic contributions to information status, Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, vol.38, pp.14-32, 2006.

U. Bohnacker and . Rosén, How to start a V2 declarative clause: Transfer of syntax vs. information structure in L2 German, Papers from the language acquisition workshop, vol.34, pp.29-56, 2006.

J. Bouchard and M. Dufresne-&-fernande-dupuis, Les changements dans les constructions à copule et l'évolution des clivées en français et en anglais médiéval, Le changement en français. Etudes de linguistique diachronique, pp.73-91, 2010.

M. Côté, Concurrence structurale, conditions d'appréhensibilité et changement syntaxique: la chute de la structure v2 en français, Canadian Journal of Linguistics, vol.40, issue.2, pp.165-200, 1995.

L. Danckaert, The development of Latin clause structure, 2017.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01545535

K. De-clercq, The nanosyntax of French negation: A diachronic perspective, Studies on negation: Syntax, semantics, and variation, pp.49-80, 2016.

A. Dess, Atlas des formes et des constructions des chartes françaises du xiii e siècle, 1980.

M. S. Dryer, Focus, pragmatic presupposition, and activated propositions, Journal of Pragmatics, vol.26, issue.95, pp.59-62, 1996.

, Larrivée: To be or not to be informational Art, vol.85, pp.17-19

A. Dufter, The paradox of grammatical change: Perspectives from Romance, Amsterdam: Benjamins. DOI, pp.31-56, 2008.

M. Gell-mann and . Ruhlen, The origin and evolution of word order, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol.108, issue.42, pp.17290-17295, 2011.

M. Glessgen, La genèse d'une norme en français au Moyen Âge: mythe et réalité du 'francien'. Revue de Linguistique Romane 81, pp.313-397, 2017.

M. Götze, T. Weskott, C. Endriss, I. Fiedler, S. Hinterwimmer et al., Information Structure in cross-linguistic corpora: Annotation guidelines for phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and information structure, pp.147-187, 2007.

M. Hansen and . Visconti, On the diachrony of "reinforced" negation in French and Italian, Grammaticalization and pragmatics: Facts, approaches, theoretical issues, pp.137-171, 2009.

A. Holmberg, Syntax-theory and analysis. An international Handbook 1. 242-283, 2015.

A. Hulk and . Van-kemenade, Verb second, pro-drop, functional projections and language change, Clause structure and language change, pp.227-257, 1995.

B. Imel, Sa nature proveir se volt: An information-structural account of leftward stylistic displacement in Medieval French, vol.26, 2019.

R. Ingham, Topic, focus and null subjects in Old French, Canadian Journal of Linguistics, vol.63, issue.2, pp.242-263, 2018.

R. Ingham, Comparing spoken-origin and written-origin data as sources for premodern language change. Hand-out, vol.11, 2018.

R. Ingham and . Larrivée, La structure de l'information et la sémantique de la phrase à la fin de l'ancien français. L'Information Grammaticale 145, pp.32-37, 2015.

P. Kiparsky, Labov, sound change, and phonological theory, Journal of Sociolinguistics, vol.20, issue.4, pp.464-488, 2016.

A. Kroch, Reflexes of grammar in patterns of language change, Language Variation and Change, vol.1, pp.199-244, 1989.

M. Labelle and . Hirschbühler, Changes in the clausal organization and the position of clitics in Old French, Grammaticalization and parametric variation, pp.60-71, 2005.

M. Labelle and . Hirschbühler, Topic and focus in Old French V1 and V2 structures, Canadian Journal of Linguistics, vol.63, issue.2, pp.264-287, 2018.

D. Lagorgette, Quel ancien français pour quels étudiants ? Pour une didactique de la langue médiévale. Médiévales 45, pp.119-134, 2003.

P. Larrivée, The syntax of pragmatics: The case of presuppositional negatives, Syntaxe et Sémantique, vol.15, pp.115-138, 2015.

P. Larrivée, Historical pragmatics, explicit activation and wh in situ in French, vol.85, pp.18-19, 2019.

, Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 30, Frankfurt, pp.113-130

A. Ledgeway, Satisfying V2 in early Romance: Merge vs, Move. Journal of Linguistics, vol.44, issue.2, 2008.

P. M. Lloyd, From Latin to Spanish: Historical phonology and morphology of the Spanish language, 1987.

C. Marchello-nizia, Le décumul du "thème" dans l'évolution du français, Le Français moderne, vol.68, issue.1, pp.31-40, 2000.

C. Marchello-nizia, Word order from Latin to French. A case of grammaticalization (from pragmatics to syntactics) or of typological coherence?, Grammaticalization and pragmatics: Facts, approaches, theoretical issues, pp.1-18, 2009.

G. Mensching, Parameters in Old Romance word order. A comparative Minimalist analysis, Parameter theory and linguistic change, pp.21-42, 2012.

C. Poletto, Word order in Old Italian, 2014.

S. Prévost, Diachronie du français et linguistique de corpus: une approche quantitative renouvelée, Langages, vol.197, issue.1, pp.23-45, 2015.

S. Radwan, L'ordre des mots en ancien français. La syntaxe et la structure informationnelle de la zone préverbale, 2011.

C. Rahn, At the edge: Fronting in Middle French embedded clauses, 2016.

L. Rizzi, The fine structure of the left periphery, pp.281-337, 1997.

I. Roberts, Verbs and diachronic syntax: A comparative history of English and French, 1993.

M. Rosemeyer, Brazilian Portuguese in-situ wh-interrogatives between rhetoric and change, Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, vol.4, issue.1, 2019.

M. Rouquier, Les constructions clivées en ancien français et en moyen français, Romania, vol.497, pp.167-212, 0498.

A. Roussou, The Cambridge Handbook of historical syntax, pp.360-380, 2016.

A. Rouveret, Les clitiques pronominaux et la périphérie gauche en ancien français, pp.181-237, 2004.

A. Simonenko, B. Crabbé-&-sophie, and . Prévost, Text form and grammatical changes in Medieval French: A tree-bank based diachronic study, Diachronica, vol.35, issue.3, pp.393-428, 2018.

A. Stein and . Trips, Cleft sentences in the history of French and English: A critical review of compensation and contact theories, vol.39, 2012.

, Larrivée: To be or not to be informational Art, vol.85, pp.19-19

B. D. Steiner, The evolution of information structure and verb second in the history of French, 2014.

C. Trips and . Stein, Cleft sentences in the history of French and English. A case of pragmatic borrowing, Focus Realization in Romance and Beyond, 287-310. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins, 2018.

B. Vance, Syntactic change in Medieval French, Dordrecht: Kluwer. DOI, 1997.

T. Venneman, Topics, Subjects and word order: From SXV to SVX via TVX, Historical Linguistics, pp.339-376, 1974.

G. &. Ward, J. Betty, and . Birner, Discourse and information structure, Handbook of discourse analysis, pp.119-137, 2001.

S. Wolfe, A comparative perspective on the evolution of Romance clausal structure, Diachronica, vol.33, issue.4, pp.461-502, 2016.

S. Wolfe, Verb Second in Medieval Romance, 2018.

S. Wolfe, Probing the syntax of a problematic particle: Old French 'si' revisited, Transactions of the Philological Society, vol.116, issue.3, 2018.

S. Wolfe, Under evaluation. Variation and change in the Medieval French subject system

M. Zimmermann, Expletive and referential subject pronouns in Medieval French, 2014.