释义 |
clitic /ˈklɪtɪk /noun GrammarAn unstressed word that normally occurs only in combination with another word, for example 'm in I’m.Null objects are allowed in many languages despite the absence of an object-identifying clitic or a verb - object agreement feature....- In more prestigious varieties of Spanish, the clitic and object noun phrase are in complementary distribution (La vi or Vi a la mujer).
- Except for Obi-Wan, the good guys in the Star Wars original trilogy all spoke colloquial American English, clitics and all.
Derivativescliticization /ˌklɪtɪsʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ (also cliticisation) noun ...- What seems to be excluded is a theory that analyzes both cliticization and quantifier float as local movement.
- Topics to be discussed are do-support, cliticisation phenomena and the interaction of stress and intonational phrasing with word order.
- In my PhD thesis, I've examined the inflectional behaviour of pronominal clitics in European Portuguese and developed an inflectional account of cliticisation.
cliticize (also cliticise) verb ...- As an IM, however, it underwent grammaticalization and was cliticized to the left of the verb.
- As adverbs, relators are cliticised onto postposition, again to further specify the meaning of the postposition.
- When negation cliticizes to the beginning of verbs and modals, the resulting combination is treated as a compound.
Origin1940s: from (en)clitic and (pro)clitic. |