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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CLITIC

Back formation from enclitic and proclitic.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CLITIC

clitic  [ˈklɪtɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CLITIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Clitic can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CLITIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Clitic

In morphology and syntax, a clitic is a morpheme that has syntactic characteristics of a word, but depends phonologically on another word or phrase. The term is derived from the Greek for "leaning". It is pronounced like an affix, but plays a syntactic role at the phrase level. In other words, clitics have the form of affixes, but the distribution of function words. For example, the English possessive ’s is a clitic in the phrase the king of England's horse: It looks like a suffix, but its position at the end of "the king of England" rather than on "king" is like that of a separate word. Clitics can belong to any grammatical category, although they are commonly pronouns, determiners, or adpositions. Note that orthography is not always a good guide for distinguishing clitics from affixes: clitics may be written as separate words, but sometimes they are joined to the word on which they depend, or separated by special characters such as hyphens or apostrophes. The word "clitic" is often used loosely for what may be better described as an affix or word.

Definition of clitic in the English dictionary

The definition of clitic in the dictionary is a clitic word.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CLITIC


anaclitic
ˌænəˈklɪtɪk
analytic
ˌænəˈlɪtɪk
autocatalytic
ˌɔːtəʊˌkætəˈlɪtɪk
catalytic
ˌkætəˈlɪtɪk
cytolytic
ˌsaɪtəˈlɪtɪk
electrolytic
ɪˌlɛktrəʊˈlɪtɪk
enclitic
ɪnˈklɪtɪk
fibrinolytic
ˌfaɪbrɪnəʊˈlɪtɪk
glycolytic
ˌɡlaɪkəʊˈlɪtɪk
hemolytic
ˌhiːməʊˈlɪtɪk
heteroclitic
ˌhɛtərəˈklɪtɪk
hydrolytic
ˌhaɪdrəˈlɪtɪk
lytic
ˈlɪtɪk
pearlitic
pɜːˈlɪtɪk
politic
ˈpɒlɪtɪk
proclitic
prəʊˈklɪtɪk
proteolytic
ˌprəʊtɪəˈlɪtɪk
psychoanalytic
ˌsaɪkəʊænəˈlɪtɪk
pyrolytic
ˌpaɪrəʊˈlɪtɪk
thrombolytic
ˌθrɒmbəˈlɪtɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CLITIC

cliquishly
cliquishness
cliquism
cliquy
clishmaclaver
Clisthenes
clistogamy
clit
clitella
clitellar
clitellum
cliticize
clitoral
clitorectomy
clitoric
clitoridectomies
clitoridectomy
clitoris
clitter

WORDS THAT END LIKE CLITIC

aerolitic
batholitic
body politic
chrysolitic
critic
encephalitic
Glagolitic
impolitic
marlitic
oolitic
ophiolitic
pelitic
rhyolitic
spherulitic
staurolitic
stromatolitic
syphilitic
the body politic
theodolitic
zeolitic
zoolitic

Synonyms and antonyms of clitic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «clitic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CLITIC

Find out the translation of clitic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of clitic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «clitic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

clitic
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

clítico
570 millions of speakers

English

clitic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

क्लिटिक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

clitic
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

clitic
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

clíticos
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ক্লিটিক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

clitique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Clitic
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

clitic
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

接語
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

clitic
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Clitic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

clitic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இடைச்சொல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

क्लिकट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

klitik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

clitico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

clitic
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

clitic
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

clitic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

clitic
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

clitic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

clitic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

clitic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of clitic

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CLITIC»

The term «clitic» is normally little used and occupies the 119.584 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CLITIC» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «clitic» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «clitic» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about clitic

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CLITIC»

Discover the use of clitic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to clitic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Clitic and Affix Combinations: Theoretical Perspectives
In this volume, the relationship between clitics and affixes and their combinatorial properties has led to a serious discussion of the interface between syntax, morphology, semantics, and phonology that draws on a variety of theoretical ...
Lorie Heggie, Fernando Ordóñez, 2005
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Clitic Phenomena in European Languages
This book is concerned with a number of central issues in the theory of clitics, a topic that has become much debated in recent years.
Frits H. Beukema, Marcel den Dikken, 2000
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Clitic Doubling in the Balkan Languages
This volume is a collection of articles on clitic doubling, a phenomenon that has preoccupied generative linguists since the 1980s, when its theoretical importance was noted. Clitic doubling is prevalent in the Balkan languages.
Dalina Kallulli, Liliane Tasmowski, 2008
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The Catalan Clitic System: A Diachronic Perspective on its ...
The book is a qualitative and quantitative investigation into the Catalan clitic system from Old to Modern Catalan.
Susann Fischer, 2003
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Finite Verb Stress and Clitic Verbs in Old English "Beowulf".
This thesis examines the stress and distribution of unstressed light finite verbs in Old English Beowulf and discusses the possible implications on the development of verb-second in early Old English.
Yasuko Suzuki, 2008
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Spanish Clitic Climbing
A broader contribution of the work is its focus on reaching a better understanding not only of Spanish clitic pronouns, but also of Spanish syntactic structure in general, as the study of clitic placement largely overlaps with other areas ...
Veronica Gonzalez Lopez, 2008
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The Acquisition of Direct Object Scrambling and Clitic ...
carrying the feature [referential]), we will translate "specific" as such. Sportiche assumes that an object clitic is a head, base-generated in the head of this projection. The object clitic's [referential] feature is licensed under Spec-Head agreement ...
Jeannette C. Schaeffer, 2000
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Clitics in the Languages of Europe
Introduction The purpose of this article is to discuss the facts of direct object clitic doubling in Greek, and to address some questions having to do with parametric variation in clitic doubling constructions. Accusative clitic doubling presents a ...
Henk C. van Riemsdijk, 1999
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A Feature-based Syntax of Functional Categories: The ...
Chapter. 4. Aspects. of. clitic. placement. and. clitic. climbing. In a Minimalist formulation of syntax of the sort presented in Chapter 2, the derivation of a sentence is directed by features on functional and lexical categories in a numeration.
Michael Hegarty, 2005
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Spanish Clitic Doubling: A Study of the Syntax-pragmatics ...
Valeria A. Belloro. The pragmatic component in RRG is crucial for the analysis of a number of grammatical phenomena. It makes possible a pragmatic account of VP-like constituents (Van Valin 2005, §3.5), and it explains the interpretation of ...
Valeria A. Belloro, 2007

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CLITIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term clitic is used in the context of the following news items.
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Why we should stop using an apostrophe s for possessives
Actually, it's something in between: it's a clitic, specifically an enclitic (because it attaches at the end). It's more than a suffix — it moves around ... «The Week Magazine, Feb 15»
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Linguistics Students Earn National Honors
He studies a phenomenon that linguists used to think was impossible: taking a certain type of word, called a clitic, and inserting it in the middle ... «UConn Advance, Apr 13»

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