cliticization
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cliticization — (Amer.) n. (Linguistics) act of becoming attached to a word as a clitic (also cliticisation) … English contemporary dictionary
cliticization — See cliticize. * * * … Universalium
cliticize — cliticization, n. /klit euh suyz /, v.i., cliticized, cliticizing. Ling. to become attached to a word or phrase as a clitic. Also, esp. Brit., cliticise. [CLITIC + IZE] * * * … Universalium
cliticize — cliticization, n. /klit euh suyz /, v.i., cliticized, cliticizing. Ling. to become attached to a word or phrase as a clitic. Also, esp. Brit., cliticise. [CLITIC + IZE] … Useful english dictionary
Clitic — In morphology and syntax, a clitic is a morpheme that is grammatically independent, but phonologically dependent on another word or phrase.[1] It is pronounced like an affix, but works at the phrase level. For example, the word an in the phrase:… … Wikipedia
Grammatical polarity — Grammatical categories Animacy Aspect Case Clusivity Definiteness Degree of comparison Evidentiality Focus … Wikipedia
Clitic doubling — In linguistics, clitic doubling, or pronominal reduplication is a phenomenon by which clitic pronouns appear in verb phrases together with the full noun phrases that they refer to (as opposed to the cases where such pronouns and full noun phrases … Wikipedia
Unaccusative verb — In linguistics, an unaccusative verb is an intransitive verb whose (syntactic) subject is not a (semantic) agent; that is, it does not actively initiate, or is not actively responsible for, the action of the verb. Unaccusative verbs thus contrast … Wikipedia
Tübatulabal language — Infobox Language name=Tübatulabal region=Kern River, California, United States speakers=Possibly 6Gordon (2005).] familycolor=American fam1=Uto Aztecan fam2=Northern iso2=nai iso3=tubTübatulabal (IPA: IPA|təˈbɑtələˌbɑl ) is a Uto Aztecan language … Wikipedia
Suffix — This article is about the linguistic term. For other uses, see Suffix (disambiguation). In linguistics, a suffix (also sometimes called a postfix or ending) is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings,… … Wikipedia
