Sententional Negation and Clitics in Middle Bulgarian

We give a short survey of the clitic syntax and the placement of the general negation in Middle Bulgarian, with focus on Wallachian Bulgarian letters (ca. 1386 ―1509 AD). These issues are inter-dependent. The placement of the negation marker не in the clause has an impact over the clitic-internal ordering. Auxiliary clitics tend to be placed differently in clauses with negative vs. non-negative polarity. Middle Bulgarian displays the initial stage of the syntactic drift. Auxiliary clitics originally took the slot AUX2 (after the pronominal clitics) but gradually go over to slot AUX1 (before the pronominal clitics).