Critic vs Clitic - What's the difference?
critic | clitic |
A person who appraises the works of others.
* Macaulay
A specialist in judging works of art.
One who criticizes; a person who finds fault.
* I. Watts
An opponent.
(an act of criticism)
* Alexander Pope
(the art of criticism)
* John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Chapter 21, page 550
(obsolete, ambitransitive) To criticise.
* A. Brewer
(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).
* 1997 , Raffaella Zanuttini, Negation and Clausal Structure , Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax,
* 2006 , Olga Mišeska Tomi?, Balkan Sprachbund Morpho-Syntactic Features ,
* 2009 , Philippe Prévost, The Acquisition of French , Language Acquisition and Language Disorders: 51,
As nouns the difference between critic and clitic
is that critic is critic while 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).As an adjective critic
is critical.critic
English
(wikipedia critic)Alternative forms
* critick (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- The opinion of the most skilful critics was, that nothing finer [than Goldsmith's Traveller ] had appeared in verse since the fourth book of the Dunciad.
- When an author has many beauties consistent with virtue, piety, and truth, let not little critics exalt themselves, and shower down their ill nature.
- Make each day a critic on the last.
- And, perhaps, if they were distinctly weighed, and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logic and critic , than what we have been hitherto acquainted with.
Verb
- Nay, if you begin to critic once, we shall never have done.
Anagrams
* ----clitic
English
(wikipedia clitic)Noun
(en noun)- In English, the possessive ''-'s'' is a clitic .
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.
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.
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.