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Clitic
//ˈklɪtɪk// noun
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Noun
- 1 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."
- 2 a word that is treated in pronunciation as forming a part of a neighboring word and that is often unaccented or contracted. wordnet
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κλιτικός (klitikós, “inflexional”).
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