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.
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Clitic
//ˈklɪtɪk//
Synonyms for "clitic" (1 found)
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1 entriesTranslations
44 translations across 37 languages.
Belarusian
1 entries- клі́тыка noun (morpheme attached to another word)
Breton
1 entries- stagadenn noun (morpheme attached to another word)
Bulgarian
1 entries- кли́тика noun (morpheme attached to another word)
Catalan
1 entries- clític noun (morpheme attached to another word)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 附著詞素 /附着词素 noun (morpheme attached to another word)
Czech
1 entries- příklonka noun (morpheme attached to another word)
Danish
1 entries- klitikon noun (morpheme attached to another word)
Dutch
1 entries- cliticum noun (morpheme attached to another word)
Estonian
3 entries- kliitik noun (morpheme attached to another word)
- liidepartikkel noun (morpheme attached to another word)
- liidik noun (morpheme attached to another word)
Finnish
1 entries- liitepartikkeli noun (morpheme attached to another word)
French
1 entries- clitique noun (morpheme attached to another word)
Georgian
1 entries- კლიტიკა noun (morpheme attached to another word)
German
1 entries- Klitikon noun (morpheme attached to another word)
Greek
1 entries- εγκλιτικό noun (morpheme attached to another word)
Hebrew
1 entries- נתמך noun (morpheme attached to another word)
Hungarian
3 entries- függőszó noun (morpheme attached to another word)
- klitikum noun (morpheme attached to another word)
- simulószó noun (morpheme attached to another word)
Icelandic
1 entries- sníkill noun (morpheme attached to another word)
Indonesian
1 entries- klitik noun (morpheme attached to another word)
Iranian Persian
1 entries- واژِهبَسْت noun (morpheme attached to another word)
Italian
1 entries- clitico noun (morpheme attached to another word)
Japanese
1 entries- 接語 noun (morpheme attached to another word)
Korean
1 entries- 접어 noun (morpheme attached to another word)
Macedonian
1 entries- клитика noun (morpheme attached to another word)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- klitikon noun (morpheme attached to another word)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- klitikon noun (morpheme attached to another word)
Polish
1 entries- klityka noun (morpheme attached to another word)
Portuguese
1 entries- clítico noun (morpheme attached to another word)
Romanian
1 entries- clitic noun (morpheme attached to another word)
Russian
1 entries- кли́тика noun (morpheme attached to another word)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- klìtika noun (morpheme attached to another word)
- клѝтика noun (morpheme attached to another word)
Slovak
1 entries- príklonka noun (morpheme attached to another word)
Slovene
3 entries- breznaglasnica noun (morpheme attached to another word)
- klitika noun (morpheme attached to another word)
- naslonka noun (morpheme attached to another word)
Spanish
1 entries- clítico noun (morpheme attached to another word)
Swedish
1 entries- klitikon noun (morpheme attached to another word)
Turkish
1 entries- ingklitik noun (morpheme attached to another word)
Ukrainian
1 entries- клі́тика noun (morpheme attached to another word)
Welsh
1 entries- gogwyddair noun (morpheme attached to another word)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
In 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.
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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.
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