clitic en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈklɪtɪk/
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κλιτικός (klitikós, “inflexional”).
Meanings
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A morpheme that functions like a word, but never appears as an independent word, instead being always attached to a following or preceding word (or, in some cases, within a surrounding word).
In fact, even within the northern Italian dialects, subject clitics do not constitute a syntactically uniform class, as has been convincingly argued in Poletto's work.
1997, Raffaella Zanuttini, Negation and Clausal Structure, Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax, page 29In Macedonian, clitic-doubling is a fully-fledged phenomenon. The Macedonian Dat and Acc pronominal clitics, which originate in agreement phrases and move to preverbal position,¹⁰ where they cluster with other clausal clitics, are on their way to becoming mere case markers, which formally distinguish direct and indirect objects from subjects.
2006, Olga Mišeska Tomić, Balkan Sprachbund Morpho-Syntactic Features, page 242:Here, we will see that they also have problems with overt pronouns, especially object clitics, whose emergence is more delayed than in typically developing children.
2009, Philippe Prévost, The Acquisition of French, Language Acquisition and Language Disorders: 51, page 196
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| clitics | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Deriveds
postclitic · cliticization · clitichood · autoclitic · proclitic · heteroclitic · cliticize · cliticless · xenoclitic · oikoclitic
Hyponyms
mesoclitic · endoclitic · enclitic · proclitic
Relateds
mesoclisis · enclisis · endoclisis · proclisis
Translations (44)
ja 接語 (morpheme attached to another word) · sk príklonka (morpheme attached to another word) · sv klitikon (morpheme attached to another word) · hu simulószó (morpheme attached to another word) · et liidik (morpheme attached to another word) · fa-ira واژِهبَسْت (morpheme attached to another word) · sh клѝтика (morpheme attached to another word) · he נתמך (morpheme attached to another word) · hu klitikum (morpheme attached to another word) · nb klitikon (morpheme attached to another word) · sl naslonka (morpheme attached to another word) · et liidepartikkel (morpheme attached to another word) · es clítico (morpheme attached to another word) · el εγκλιτικό (morpheme attached to another word) · cy gogwyddair (morpheme attached to another word) · fr clitique (morpheme attached to another word) · ca clític (morpheme attached to another word) · sl klitika (morpheme attached to another word) · nl cliticum (morpheme attached to another word) · ko 접어 (morpheme attached to another word) · cmn 附著詞素 /附着词素 (morpheme attached to another word) · br stagadenn (morpheme attached to another word) · cs příklonka (morpheme attached to another word) · nn klitikon (morpheme attached to another word) · tr ingklitik (morpheme attached to another word) · sl breznaglasnica (morpheme attached to another word) · uk клі́тика (morpheme attached to another word) · is sníkill (morpheme attached to another word) · et kliitik (morpheme attached to another word) · it clitico (morpheme attached to another word) · pl klityka (morpheme attached to another word) · fi liitepartikkeli (morpheme attached to another word) · ru кли́тика (morpheme attached to another word) · be клі́тыка (morpheme attached to another word) · da klitikon (morpheme attached to another word) · hu függőszó (morpheme attached to another word) · mk клитика (morpheme attached to another word) · ka კლიტიკა (morpheme attached to another word) · id klitik (morpheme attached to another word) · pt clítico (morpheme attached to another word) · de Klitikon (morpheme attached to another word) · ro clitic (morpheme attached to another word) · sh klìtika (morpheme attached to another word) · bg кли́тика (morpheme attached to another word)