clitic
/ˈklɪtɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.88 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κλιτικός (klitikós, “inflexional”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: κλιτικός