In morphology and syntax, a clitic (/ˈklɪtɪk/ KLIT-ik, backformed from Greek ἐγκλιτικός enklitikós "leaning" or "enclitic") is a morpheme that has syntactic...

In linguistics, clitic doubling, or pronominal reduplication is a phenomenon by which clitic pronouns appear in verb phrases together with the full noun...

Clitic climbing is a phenomenon first identified in Romance languages in which a pronominal object of an embedded infinitive appears attached to the matrix...

In linguistics, anaphoric clitics are a specific subset of clitics: morphologically-bound morphemes that syntactically resemble one word unit, but are...

Object pronouns may be both clitic and non-clitic, with non-clitic forms carrying greater emphasis. When used as clitics, object pronouns are generally...

person clitic. In fact, clitic climbing is a common feature in Romance languages with designation of clitics as unbound morphemes where the clitic "climbs"...

as in Ti do un libro, and sometimes with other clitic pronouns (see below) Sometimes before other clitic pronouns (see below), as in Te lo do When unstressed...

with greater stress. Some authors further distinguish weak pronouns from clitic pronouns, which are phonetically less independent. Examples are found in...

Below, clitics are indicated by the symbol "-\".: 595  There are two directional clitics – "centripetal" clitics and "centrifugal" clitics—and they...

bottom of the page. As in other Romance languages, object pronouns are clitics, which must come next to a verb, and are pronounced together with it as...