a word that in discourse is unstressed and is pronounced as part of the following or the preceding word
a word which is treated, as far as its position and phonology are concerned, as though it was an affix
Attached: used of the personal pronouns of Spanish which cannot occur on their own but which must cooccur with a verb, eg me, te. Clitic pronouns are also known as unstressed, atonic or conjunctive pronouns.
A language element with wordlike status or form that resembles a word. A clitic usually cannot be used on its own as a word in a construction. Clitics are usually phonologically bound to a preceding word or a following word.
A clitic denotes an item which resembles a word but doesn't contain the full phonological structure. For this reason, the word participle is consider bound and must attach to a lexical stem: can't {n't} (= can not), I've {ve} (= I have).
a form which resembles a word, but cannot stand on its own, being dependent on a neighbouring word. An example of a clitic is the â€(tm)m in Iâ€(tm)m.
A form of an article, pronoun, or other function word that attaches to a baseform, or stem. A postclitic is a clitic that attaches to the end of the baseform, such -moi in the French phrase donnez-moi. A preclitic is a clitic that attaches to the beginning of the baseform, such as in the French word L'enfant.
pronoun weak pronoun; a pronoun of one syllable which is dependant on another word and cannot be used on its own. Compare with emphatic or strong.
In linguistics, a clitic is an element that has some of the properties of an independent word and some more typical of a bound morpheme.
