Clitic vs Mesoclitic - What's the difference?
clitic | mesoclitic |
(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).
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Mesoclitic is a hyponym of clitic.
As nouns the difference between clitic and mesoclitic
is that clitic is 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 mesoclitic is a clitic inserted inside a word (such as between a stem and a suffix).clitic
English
(wikipedia clitic)Noun
(en noun)- In English, the possessive ''-'s'' is a clitic .
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.