postcliticn.
/ˌpəʊs(t)ˈklɪtɪk/, U.S. /ˌpoʊs(t)ˈklɪdɪk/ Linguistics.
An unemphatic word stressed as part of the preceding word.
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postclitic1963
1963 M. W. Bloomfield & L. Newmark Ling. Introd. Hist. Eng. iv. 147 The is a proclitic in NE..and one, as in a bad one or the green one, is a postclitic.
1965 Language 41 473 As many as five syllables occur prestressed, but only one syllable occurs poststressed, except rarely when a postclitic follows a suffix.
1984 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 104 626 The only forms that may be suffixed to a finite verb form are postclitics.
1993 D. Zeyrek Runs in Folktales & Dynamics of Turkish Runs 52 1 This form is a postclitic in Turkish that forms subordinate clauses of time.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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