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clitic enclitic Wackernagel's law Clitic morpheme Cliticisation

A word that is treated in pronunciation as forming a part of a neighboring word and that is often unaccented or contracted. Open English WordNet

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A word that is treated in pronunciation as forming a part of a neighboring word and that is often unaccented or contracted. Open English WordNet

In morphology and syntax, a clitic is a morpheme that has syntactic characteristics of a word, but depends phonologically on another word or phrase. Wikipedia

A morpheme that functions like a word, but appears not as an independent word but rather is always attached to a following or preceding word. OmegaWiki

A clitic that follows its host. OmegaWiki

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). Wiktionary

Morpheme attached to another word. Wiktionary (translation)

Most languages can adopt theme-rheme structure idiosyncratically — as for English, we often use as for theme constructions — but topic-prominent languages use systematic changes in syntax or even dedicated morpological elements such as the Japanese clitic particle -wa to mark themes and to set them apart from rhemes. Open English WordNet

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