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Clitic
UK
/ˈklɪtɪk/
US
/ˈklɪtɪk/
Translation clitic into russian
clitic
Noun
UK
/ˈklɪtɪk/
US
/ˈklɪtɪk/
In linguistics, a clitic is a morpheme that has syntactic characteristics of a word, but depends phonologically on another word.
В лингвистике клитика — это морфема, которая имеет синтаксические характеристики слова, но фонологически зависит от другого слова.
Definitions
clitic
Noun
UK
/ˈklɪtɪk/
US
/ˈklɪtɪk/
A clitic is a morpheme that has syntactic characteristics of a word, but depends phonologically on another word or phrase and cannot stand alone.
In the sentence 'I'm going', the contraction 'I'm' is a clitic, as it attaches to the pronoun 'I'.