Clitic Templates and Discourse Marker ti in Old Czech 1 Anton Zimmerling Sholokhov Moscow State University for the Humanities/ Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences 1. Aims This paper aims at solving two problems of Slavic syntax – a) to prove that Old Czech had a discourse clitic particle ti1 attested in other Old Slavic languages, b) to describe Old Czech clitic template for the first time. Both problems are related: the proof that Old Czech ti1 was a separate syntactic element is based on the claim that ti1 was part of Old Czech clitic template and had a unique slot in it. 2. The data Old Czech data are based on the corpus analysis of ‘Dalimil chronicle’ (XIVth century). In a comparative and typological perspective, Old Czech is compared to Old Novgorod Russian, Modern Czech to and three areal types of clitic sys- tems, called West Slavic type, Old Russian type and Balcanic Slavic type. 3. Working hypothesis, framework I adopt a template approach in clitic studies (cf. Zalizniak 1993; Franks and King 2000; Browne 2008; Zimmerling and Kosta 2013) and implement the methods of formal typology. The basic assumption is that if clitic system is stable, clitic- internal ordering can be described in terms of templates (matrices), with one-to- one correspondence between clitic classes and template slots, so that a Template Rule predicts linear ordering a > b (‘a precedes b’) for each pair of clusterizing clitics (a, b) if they stand contiguously. Languages with clitic clusters have param- eters of clitic-external ordering, notably – parameters licensing different types of clitic hosts (single phonetic words, multi-word phrases etc.) and parameters 1 The paper is written with financial support from the Russian Foundation of Sciences, project RSCF 14-04-18-03270 ‘Word order typology, communicative-syntactic inter- face and information structure in world’s languages’. I am grateful to the anonymous reviewer for the valuable comments.