2023年6月10日 · I've heard people claim ‘phrasal affix’ is a synonym for ‘clitic’, and heard others who disagree. I have also seen titles of papers which say, Some Language Feature as a …

So for instance, if the definite article -a is a clitic, then you shouldn't be able to have a word foo that unexpectedly becomes bar-a rather than foo-a when the definite article is attached. I also …

Err, to clarify that last paragraph: It's tempting to think of the categories your own first language uses as basic -- e.g. to think "Well, switch-reference is some exotic thing that people usually …

2019年6月12日 · In the paper, "Feature Analysis of Danish Pronominal Paradigms with a View to a Danish Application of the Pronominal Approach", it is stated "In Danish, only one pronoun …

2022年3月1日 · ‘Pronominal clitics’ is ambiguous. It may refer to clitics which are pronominal in nature (i.e., clitic forms of pronouns), or it may refer to clitics which can attach themselves to …

2017年11月1日 · This elision exists in most Romance languages. Spanish and Italian have it. Portuguese have "d'água" (of water) and the surname "d'Ávila". But it seems that, in the later …

2017年11月9日 · If the word is clitic or phonetically appended to another word, it is more likely it will not be called adposition. For example, in the Spanish phrase " para Maria" ( "to Mary" ), …

2017年9月18日 · Summarizing the paper by Zwicky and Pullum commented by @sumelic above: They suggest that most contractions are clitics, but <-n't> is an inflection.

In the first sentence, the locative clitic ci is in a clausal position, and in the second sentence it is attached to the lexical verb. My intuition is that ci is initially merged as andare 's complement …

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