ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ENCLITIC
From Late Latin encliticus, from Greek enklitikos, from enklinein to cause to lean, from en-² + klinein to lean.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ENCLITIC»
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enclitic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
enclitic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
On the
Enclitic Ne in Early Latin
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
2
Studies in Middle English Linguistics
4. The. 'unstressed'. vowels. of. Middle. English. 4.1. The enclitic vowels 4.1.1.
The inventory As for the enclitic vowels of Middle English, they comprise a
commutation class of just three members: hl, as in beren /bae-ra/ 'bear'; IvJ, as in
folewe ...
3
An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax
-m after a vowel; or -mi or -ma in all cases), it seems to have been used at the
end of a word, and so it is assumed to have been enclitic on (i.e., to have leaned
on) that word. Only the consonantal mem is preserved; since its meaning was lost
...
Bruce K. Waltke, Michael Patrick O'Connor, 1990
4
A Primer of Biblical Greek
Enclitics in biblical Greek include several forms of the personal pronouns, most
forms of the verb eijui, and a few other words. When enclitic forms are given in
this and later lessons, they will be identified as such. A major difference between
...
5
Tagalog Reference Grammar
The word that an enclitic follows (either immediately or after one or more other
enclitics) within a given construction may be called the PRE-ENCLITIC WORD (
hereafter, P). In sentences cited thus far, P has in each case been the first word of
...
Paul Schachter, Fe T. Otanes, 1983
6
Uto-Aztecan: Structural, Temporal, and Geographic ...
Since a form of this enclitic seems to appear in the second-person subject
combination =ra' (3.34), it may be that the only subject that cannot be used with
an =a object (in the extant data) is third-person singular. 3.34. The =ra enclitic is
used for ...
Eugene H. Casad, Thomas L. Willett, 2000
7
The Personal Pronouns in the Germanic Languages: A Study of ...
A 2nd person sing. form pen is recorded for French Flanders, West Flanders and
Zeeuws-Vlaanderen (see e.g. De Schutter 1989: 56-59). On myn in Afrikaans see
9.1.7. 8.1.2 2nd p. sing. nom. enclitic -stu Through reanalysis of verb ending ...
8
Studies in the Grammatical Tradition in Tibet
With verbs, temporal sequence, as with enclitic 13: rgyal-po-hi skal-banas 'when/
after he is given a king's portion', mthoñ-nas 'after having seen'. 7.6. The
conjunctive particles contrast with the case particles along two different axes—
they are ...
22.7 the progressive/durative aspect enclitic <=aydoŋa ~ etc.> the interpretation
of the progressive/durative enclitic depends on the semantics of the predicate. it
is an aspectual enclitic indicating that an event is on-going (progressive ...
10
The Syntax of Apollonius Dyscolus
The base forms are those with e [emeo, seo], and so the pleonastic forms [emeio,
seio] are always accented. In the third place, no enclitic can be longer than three
moras, so how could emeio be enclitic? [It has four moras.] Neither can seio ...
Apollonius (Dyscolus), Fred Walter Householder, 1981
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ENCLITIC»
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enclitic is used in the context of the following news items.
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»
Unseen CS Lewis letter defines his notion of joy
... which with a lot of them is something you're grateful he's done so you don't have to. He also knows the difference between oti and enclitic de. «The Guardian, Dec 14»
Double up on your kanji to avoid homonym mixups
(In linguistics it's called an enclitic.) The most common of these is the character 子 (usually read shi or ko, and originally meaning a child). «The Japan Times, Nov 14»
Philip Jenkins on Mark's Original Ending
Incidentally, the final Greek sentence ends with the word gar, technically an enclitic. In ancient Greek, it was very bad form to end a story on an ... «Patheos, May 14»
MARK'S ENDING
Incidentally, the final Greek sentence ends with the word gar, technically an enclitic. In ancient Greek, it was very bad form to end a story on an ... «Patheos, Apr 14»
'Tis and 10 other fun proclitic words
You can even take an enclitic, the s of "it's," and turn it into a proclitic, Gershwin style: 'swonderful, 'smarvelous, 'sawful nice, 'sparadise, and so ... «The Week Magazine, Dec 13»
Primer on Manglish
Arguably, the best known enclitic in Malay is lah, which, in pre-Malindo writing, was tagged onto a preceding word by a hyphen ( ) The same ... «Malaysia Star, Oct 11»
Learning (and Loving) a Foreign Language
... cognates) and then bury themselves in a grammar text full of phrases like “genitive construction,” “triconsonantal root” and “enclitic pronoun,” ... «Triple Helix Online, Jul 11»
Image: Jan Victors, Wiki Commons
... Hebrew verb-plus-enclitic-pronoun hashiveynu, “return us,” or, “bring us back.” To those of you who are synagogue goers, this will, of course, ... «Forward, Jul 11»
Gender sensitivity
Here I use the term enclitic as defined in Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary (1974), thus: “a word or particle which always follows another ... «Malaysia Star, Jul 09»
