ABSTRACT
To review the facts briefly, the thelo: +Infinitive future in Medieval Greek has been shown
to allow the application of Clause Union in its derivation. The various pieces of evidence showing
this were presented in Chapter 5. A consequence of the application of Clause Union is the
placement of clitic pronouns to the immediate left of the verb thelo: in this future construction. The
future type derived directly from the thelo: + lnfmitive future by the substitution of a finite verb for
the infinitive, e.g. thelo: grapso: 'I will write', however, shows no evidence of allowing Clause
Union in its derivation. A surface consequence of this is the fact that in the thelo: grapso: future,
clitic pronouns could only be placed between thelo: and the fmite verb--they no longer could attach
to the left of thelo:.A Since clitic placement to the left of thelo: depended on Clause Union, the two
questions of why Clitic Placement changed and why Clause Union was lost in the derivation of the
future reduce to the single question of why Clause Union was lost.
