What are the criteria that distinguish clitics/particles from affixes?
WEBSo for instance, if the definite article -a is a clitic, then you shouldn't be able to have a word foo that unexpectedly becomes bar-a rather than foo-a when the definite article is attached. I also don't think your epenthesis and elision data call for -a to be analyzed as an affix. There are two alternate possibilities here.
What is the difference between a phrasal affix, an affix, and a clitic?
WEBJun 10, 2023 — I've heard people claim ‘phrasal affix’ is a synonym for ‘clitic’, and heard others who disagree. I have also seen titles of papers which say, Some Language Feature as a Phrasal Affix / Affix / Clitic. indicating a common …
Concept of clitic - Linguistics Stack Exchange
WEBJun 12, 2019 — 1. I am trying to understand the concept of clitics. In the paper, "Feature Analysis of Danish Pronominal Paradigms with a View to a Danish Application of the Pronominal Approach", it is stated "In Danish, only one pronoun (man) is clitic by nature, whereas most pronouns are clitic under specific syntactic conditions".
pronouns - Concept of clitics - Linguistics Stack Exchange
WEBMar 1, 2022 — Pronouns are independent words. Clitics fit in the hard to define space between words and morphemes. ‘Pronominal clitics’ is ambiguous. It may refer to clitics which are pronominal in nature (i.e., clitic forms of pronouns), or it may refer to clitics which can attach themselves to pronouns. ‘Clitic pronouns’ can only refer to the ...
How is definiteness expressed in languages with no definite article ...
WEBErr, to clarify that last paragraph: It's tempting to think of the categories your own first language uses as basic -- e.g. to think "Well, switch-reference is some exotic thing that people usually don't think about, but surely everyone pays lots of attention to definiteness!"
affixes - Is -ce in Latin a clitic or suffix? - Linguistics Stack Exchange
WEBJun 11, 2024 — A clitic is a syntactic word but not a phonological word. That is, it doesn't stand alone phonologically—it gets incorporated into an adjacent word—but it's governed by syntax rather than morphology.
minimalism - Where are clitics initially Merged in Italian ...
WEBIn the first sentence, the locative clitic ci is in a clausal position, and in the second sentence it is attached to the lexical verb. My intuition is that ci is initially merged as andare 's complement in VP, but I'm not sure if it's possible to move the clitic to an entirely new projection (LocCL)—between T and vP—later in the derivation ...
Is the Polish preposition w a clitic? - Linguistics Stack Exchange
WEBYes, "w" works as a clitic as it becomes part of the stress unit because it does not bear any accent. Even better example to demonstrate is Czech with its word initial accent - the proclitics that are syllabic actually take over the stress in the stress unit: ['vlak] - (a) train ['ve vlaku] - in (a) train ['porod] - (a) birth
What's the difference between particle, marker and adposition?
WEBNov 9, 2017 — If the word is clitic or phonetically appended to another word, it is more likely it will not be called adposition. For example, in the Spanish phrase " para Maria" ( "to Mary" ), the bold word is phonetically independent, and it is a preposition; but in the English phrase "Maria 's " , the bold word is phonetically dependent on the preceding ...
How do languages which prefix proper nouns (by case marking, …
WEBNov 1, 2017 — This elision exists in most Romance languages. Spanish and Italian have it. Portuguese have "d'água" (of water) and the surname "d'Ávila". But it seems that, in the later case, both words (the clitic d' and the proper Ávila) may be capitalized in some names Walter D'Ávila but not in others Dias d'Ávila. But, actually, some consider "d ...