clitic

noun

clit·ic ˈkli-tik How to pronounce clitic (audio)

: a word that is treated in pronunciation as forming a part of a neighboring word and that is often unaccented or contracted

Did you know?

Contractions Are Full of Clitics

We hear clitics every day in sentences like "This'll be fine" and "C'mon over here." There are two kinds of clitics: enclitics and proclitics. An enclitic is a clitic that is associated with the word that comes before it. Contractions, such as the "ve" in would've and the "ll" in it'll, are enclitics. A proclitic is associated with the word that follows it. Proclitics are transcribed into print far less often than enclitics are, but we hear them frequently in speech. For example, the sentence "They love to dance" is typically pronounced with the to truncated to a "t" that gets tacked onto the front of dance.

Word History

Etymology

enclitic or proclitic

First Known Use

1946, in the meaning defined above

单词	clitic
释义	clitic noun clit·ic ˈkli-tik : a word that is treated in pronunciation as forming a part of a neighboring word and that is often unaccented or contracted Did you know? Contractions Are Full of Clitics We hear clitics every day in sentences like "This'll be fine" and "C'mon over here." There are two kinds of clitics: enclitics and proclitics. An enclitic is a clitic that is associated with the word that comes before it. Contractions, such as the "ve" in would've and the "ll" in it'll, are enclitics. A proclitic is associated with the word that follows it. Proclitics are transcribed into print far less often than enclitics are, but we hear them frequently in speech. For example, the sentence "They love to dance" is typically pronounced with the to truncated to a "t" that gets tacked onto the front of dance. Word History Etymology enclitic or proclitic First Known Use 1946, in the meaning defined above
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