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Clitic

In linguistics, a clitic (/ˈklɪtɪk/ KLIT-ik, backformed from Ancient Greek ἐγκλιτικός (enklitikós) 'leaning, enclitic') is a morpheme that has syntactic characteristics of a word, but depends phonologically on another word or phrase. In this sense, it is syntactically independent but phonologically dependent—always attached to a host. A clitic is…

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Clitic

Nodes110
Edges109
Triples211
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.018182
Components1

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related to Other languages · 76
Clitic → Abil, Anne I'm, Anni, Annikos, Arabic, Are, As, Australian, Australian Aboriginal, Come, Depending, En, English, Enkä, Everyone, Finnish, Ganda, Georgian, Gio, He
related to Enclitic · 41
Clitic → ACC, ACCmiI, An, DAT, DATbowing, DATsiself, DATtoit, DATनमस, Enclitic, Estonian, Greek, Idi, Idithisన, INF, INF-loittener, INFHowever, INFNevím, Latin, NEG, NEUT
related to Word order · 19
Clitic → Caesar, Cicero, Clitics, For, He'll, Is, It, Jacob Wackernagel, Latin, LXIV, Many Indo-European, Martial's, Russian, Sallust, Spevak, They, Wackernagel's, Will, Ya
related to Comparison with words · 12
Clitic → Clitics, English, For, If, In, Independent, Linguists, Similar, Six, Some, These, Words
related to Endoclitic · 8
Clitic → Degema, Endoclitics, English, For, However, Pashto, Some, Udi
related to Mesoclitic · 8
Clitic → Additionally, For, In Portuguese, Mesoclisis, Other, Portuguese, These, This
related to Comparison with affixes · 6
Clitic → Although, Given, However, One, The, There
related to Proto-Indo-European · 6
Clitic → Greek, In, Indo-European, Latin, Proto-Indo-European, Sanskrit
related to Further reading · 5
Clitic → Krzysztof, Lingua, Migdalski, On, V2
related to Slavic languages · 5
Clitic → Czech, In, Nepodařilo, Polish, Russian

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clitics also word words verb affixes well used like particle host form attached phrase example sentence english one meaning affix

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
take partinstance ofequivalent to English verbs0.80text
da liinstance ofColloquial interrogative particles0.80text
dalinstance ofColloquial interrogative particles0.80text
jel appear in sentence-initial positioninstance ofColloquial interrogative particles0.80text
are followed by cliticsinstance ofColloquial interrogative particles0.80text
Cliticrelated to Celtic languagesIn Cornish0.60section
Cliticrelated to Celtic languagesFor0.60section
Cliticrelated to ClassificationClitics0.60section
Cliticrelated to Comparison with affixesAlthough0.60section
Cliticrelated to Comparison with affixesOne0.60section
Cliticrelated to Comparison with affixesThe0.60section
Cliticrelated to Comparison with affixesGiven0.60section

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