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Clitic vs Clinic - What's the difference?

clitic | clinic |

As nouns the difference between clitic and clinic

is that clitic is (linguistics) a morpheme that functions like a word, but never appears as an independent word, instead being always attached to a following or preceding word (or, in some cases, within a surrounding word) while clinic is a medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.

clitic

English

(wikipedia clitic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (linguistics) A morpheme that functions like a word, but never appears as an independent word, instead being always attached to a following or preceding word (or, in some cases, within a surrounding word).
  • In English, the possessive ''-'s'' is a clitic .
  • * 1997 , Raffaella Zanuttini, Negation and Clausal Structure , Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax, page 29,
  • In fact, even within the northern Italian dialects, subject clitics do not constitute a syntactically uniform class, as has been convincingly argued in Poletto's work.
  • * 2006 , Olga Mišeska Tomi?, Balkan Sprachbund Morpho-Syntactic Features , page 242,
  • In Macedonian, clitic'-doubling is a fully-fledged phenomenon. The Macedonian Dat and Acc pronominal '''clitics''', which originate in agreement phrases and move to preverbal position,10 where they cluster with other clausal ' clitics , are on their way to becoming mere case markers, which formally distinguish direct and indirect objects from subjects.
  • * 2009 , Philippe Prévost, The Acquisition of French , Language Acquisition and Language Disorders: 51, page 196,
  • Here, we will see that they also have problems with overt pronouns, especially object clitics , whose emergence is more delayed than in typically developing children.

    Hyponyms

    * (linguistics) enclitic, endoclitic, mesoclitic, proclitic

    Coordinate terms

    * affix

    clinic

    English

    (wikipedia clinic)

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
  • A group practice of several physicians.
  • A meeting for the diagnosis of problems, or training, on a particular subject.
  • A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow politicians to meet their constituents.
  • (wrestling) A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.
  • (obsolete) One confined to bed by sickness.
  • (obsolete) One who receives baptism on a sickbed.
  • (Hook)
  • (medicine, obsolete) A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils.
  • (Webster 1913)

    Derived terms

    * abortion clinic * clinical * clinically * clinician * dental clinic