clitic

clitic englanniksi

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).

2. 1997, Raffaella Zanuttini, ''Negation and Clausal Structure'', Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax, page 29:

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.

3. {{quote-book|en|year=2006|author=Olga Mišeska Tomić|title=Balkan Sprachbund Morpho-Syntactic Features|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=MFWOYUHULgsC&pg=PA242&dq=%22clitic%22%7C%22clitics%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=IlO-U-CtGoTVkAWV7IGgBg&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22clitic%22%7C%22clitics%22&f=false|page=242

4. 2009, Philippe Prévost, ''The Acquisition of French'', Language Acquisition and Language Disorders: 51, page 196:

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.