• In morphology and syntax, a clitic (/ˈklɪtɪk/ KLIT-ik, backformed from Greek ἐγκλιτικός enklitikós "leaning" or "enclitic") is a morpheme that has syntactic...
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  • In linguistics, clitic doubling, or pronominal reduplication is a phenomenon by which clitic pronouns appear in verb phrases together with the full noun...
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  • In linguistics, anaphoric clitics are a specific subset of clitics: morphologically-bound morphemes that syntactically resemble one word unit, but are...
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    Object pronouns may be both clitic and non-clitic, with non-clitic forms carrying greater emphasis. When used as clitics, object pronouns are generally...
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  • Clitic climbing is a phenomenon first identified in Romance languages in which a pronominal object of an embedded infinitive appears attached to the matrix...
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    person clitic. In fact, clitic climbing is a common feature in Romance languages with designation of clitics as unbound morphemes where the clitic "climbs"...
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    of clitics, which include: subject clitics, object clitics, and quantitative clitics. Below, see attached a table of the various tonic and clitic subject...
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  • with greater stress. Some authors further distinguish weak pronouns from clitic pronouns, which are phonetically less independent. Examples are found in...
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  • 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...
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  • Below, clitics are indicated by the symbol "-\".: 595  There are two directional clitics – "centripetal" clitics and "centrifugal" clitics—and they...
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