A typological study of pronominal clitics in Tati

In Old and Middle Persian, pronominal clitics appear in Wackernagel’s position. However, in Tati, a Modern North-Western Iranian language, these clitics function as an A-past marker, direct object marker and possessor in possessive structure. As A-past markers, they appear in Wackernagel’s position. In other functions, they tend to move to verb adjacent positions, although they do not appear in post-verbal position, but appear pre-verbally. This feature shows that rightward drift has happened in Iranian languages, moving the clitics toward the right of sentence.