• In morphology and syntax, a clitic (/ˈklɪtɪk/ KLIT-ik, backformed from Greek ἐγκλιτικός enklitikós "leaning" or "enclitic") is a morpheme that has syntactic...
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  • In linguistics, clitic doubling, or pronominal reduplication is a phenomenon by which clitic pronouns appear in verb phrases together with the full noun...
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  • Clitic climbing is a phenomenon first identified in Romance languages in which a pronominal object of an embedded infinitive appears attached to the matrix...
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    Object pronouns may be both clitic and non-clitic, with non-clitic forms carrying greater emphasis. When used as clitics, object pronouns are generally...
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  • In linguistics, anaphoric clitics are a specific subset of clitics: morphologically-bound morphemes that syntactically resemble one word unit, but are...
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    person clitic. In fact, clitic climbing is a common feature in Romance languages with designation of clitics as unbound morphemes where the clitic "climbs"...
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    of clitics, which include: subject clitics, object clitics, and quantitative clitics. Below, see attached a table of the various tonic and clitic subject...
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  • Below, clitics are indicated by the symbol "-\".: 595  There are two directional clitics – "centripetal" clitics and "centrifugal" clitics—and they...
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  • as in Ti do un libro, and sometimes with other clitic pronouns (see below) Sometimes before other clitic pronouns (see below), as in Te lo do When unstressed...
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  • with greater stress. Some authors further distinguish weak pronouns from clitic pronouns, which are phonetically less independent. Examples are found in...
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  • phenomenon of clitic doubling, that is, a double expression of the direct or indirect complement through a referential nominal and a co-referential clitic. The...
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  • bottom of the page. As in other Romance languages, object pronouns are clitics, which must come next to a verb, and are pronounced together with it as...
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  • analyzed as having polypersonal agreement; that is, the various (mostly clitic) pronouns surrounding the verb can be viewed as inflections on the verb...
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  • language that can indicate tense by attaching a verbal clitic to a noun (such as the -'ll clitic in English) is not generally regarded as using nominal...
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  • Many texts include a genitive case, but this is produced using a linking clitic (see below) and is morphologically identical to the dative. The vocative...
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    The reflexive is expressed by the invariable particle se, originally a clitic form of the accusative reflexive pronoun. Thus – miya – I wash, miya se...
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    English. Object pronouns can be both clitic and non-clitic, with non-clitic forms carrying greater emphasis. With clitic pronouns, proclitic forms are much...
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  • may spread from one morph to another, from one clitic to a clitic host, or from one clitic host to a clitic. The phonological word and grammatical word are...
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  • form, full or clitic, of the pronoun is used, (2) the position relative to the verb or verb parts, and (3) whether it is a true clitic attached phonetically...
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    pronouns are often omitted, and object pronouns come in clitic and non-clitic forms. When used as clitics, object pronouns can appear as proclitics that come...
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  • conventionally used to mark clitic boundaries: the equal sign is placed between the clitic and the word that the clitic is attached to. In chemical formulas...
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  • are all clitics, and the order of pronominal clitics as well as the negative clitic ne is strictly determined as follows. Only one clitic can be used...
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    earlier -m). Final -r, -d in some prepositions (e.g. ad, per), which were clitics[citation needed] that attached phonologically to the following word. Very...
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    clitic to. Certain pairs of second-position clitics may be phonologically altered when appearing consecutively. The most common final-position clitic...
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    (stress on the fourth-to-last syllable) occurs rarely, only on verbs with clitic pronouns attached (e.g. guardándoselos 'saving them for him/her/them/you')...
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    stress falling on the antepenultimate syllable. The rule applies when using clitics (either enclitics or proclitics) such as the negating particle не with...
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    which are also used to create neologisms. There are 27 pronouns, grouped in clitic and tonic pronouns. Personal pronouns are separated into three groups: subject...
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  • for Australian languages. For many, case-affixes are considered special-clitics (i.e. phrasal-affixes, see Anderson 2005) because they have a singular...
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    (100 years). Quasqui is a contraction from quadrans "a quarter" plus the clitic conjunction -que "and". The term was coined by Funk and Wagnalls editor...
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    is masculine, the clitic is i. If the possessed object is feminine, the clitic is e. If the possessed object is plural, the clitic is e regardless of...
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