Morpheme vs Clitic - What's the difference?
morpheme | clitic |
(linguistic morphology) The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning, such as "un-", "break", and "-able" in the word "unbreakable".
(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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As nouns the difference between morpheme and clitic
is that morpheme is the smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning, such as "un-", "break", and "-able" in the word "unbreakable" while 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).morpheme
English
(wikipedia morpheme)Noun
(en noun)- The word pigs'' consists of two morphemes : ''pig'' (a particular animal) and ''s'' (indication of the plural).
- The word werewolves''' consists of four morphemes: "''were''" (~ man), "''wolf''" (a particular animal), "''es " (plural), and " ' " (indicating possessive).
Synonyms
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* morphemicSee also
* chereme * chroneme * grapheme * lexeme * listeme * phoneme * tonemeclitic
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.