clitic in English

noun
1
an unstressed word that normally occurs only in combination with another word, for example ῾m in I'm.
Null objects are allowed in many languages despite the absence of an object-identifying clitic or a verb - object agreement feature.

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "clitic" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "clitic", or refer to the context using the word "clitic" in the English Dictionary.

1. Ahy (clitic-ko) objective form of aho; me; See also

2. Portuguese: ·(linguistics) clitic (morpheme attached to another word)··(linguistics) pertaining or related to Clitics

3. Clitics •Bound forms, like affixes •Clitics attach to a host –host+clitic = clitic group (phonological domain) •Different types of Clitics –Syntactic positioning •simple Clitics •special Clitics –second position Clitics –verbal Clitics –Position of attachment, to left or right of host •host=enclitic •proclitic=host

4. (2)The Chamorro Non-Initiality Rule: Target the first post-clitic prosodic phrase and move it across the Clitics

5. Clitics are syntactically determined in standard Spanish while their use and clitic drop in referential contexts is a primarily pragmatic phenomenon in Basque Spanish

6. Below the Clitics and fronts it over the Clitics: (1)The Chamorro 2P Clitic Rule: Front weak pronouns to the left edge of TP

7. ‘Clitic’ is a term conventionally applied as a generalization of the traditional categories proclitic and enclitic (for Clitics appearing at the beginning and end, respectively, of an associated host word or phrase).

8. In English the clitic forms appear in the same place in the sentence that the full form of the word would appear in but in many languages Clitics obey quite separate rules of placement

9. In English the clitic forms appear in the same place in the sentence that the full form of the word would appear in but in many languages Clitics obey quite separate rules of placement

10. Note that orthography is not always a good guide for distinguishing Clitics from affixes: Clitics may be written as separate words, but sometimes they are joined to the word they depend on (like the Latin clitic -que, meaning "and

11. Clitics is very much inclined to assume that anything labeled a 'particle' is a clitic; thus a basic unclarity is carried through from the original language de-scriptions, where these fundamental conceptual distinctions are not the focus, to general surveys like Zwicky 1977b, and to theoretical proposals and typo-

12. Definition of clitic : a word that is treated in pronunciation as forming a part of a neighboring word and that is often unaccented or contracted Contractions Are Full of Clitics We hear Clitics every day in sentences like "This'll be fine" and "C'mon over here."

13. Clitics 's and 've "One interesting property of Clitics that differentiates them from other affixes is that while an affix will be limited to attaching to a stem that is a particular type of lexical category, such as a verb, a clitic is not so limited.It can attach to entire phrases or even words with other Clitics