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	Clitics can belong to any grammatical category, although they are commonly [[pronoun]]s, [[determiner]]s, or [[adposition]]s. Note that [[orthography]] is not always a good guide for distinguishing clitics from affixes: clitics may be written as separate words, but sometimes they are joined to the word they depend on (like the Latin clitic ''-que'', meaning "and") or separated by special characters such as [[hyphen]]s or [[apostrophe]]s (like the English clitic '''s'' in "it's" for "it has" or "it is").		Clitics can belong to any grammatical category, although they are commonly [[pronoun]]s, [[determiner]]s, or [[adposition]]s. Note that [[orthography]] is not always a good guide for distinguishing clitics from affixes: clitics may be written as separate words, but sometimes they are joined to the word they depend on (like the Latin clitic ''-que'', meaning "and") or separated by special characters such as [[hyphen]]s or [[apostrophe]]s (like the English clitic '''s'' in "it's" for "it has" or "it is").

			==Classification==

			Clitics fall into various categories depending on their position in relation to the word they connect to.

	==See also==		==See also==

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In [[Morphology (linguistics)|morphology]] and [[syntax]], a '''clitic''' (/ˈklɪtᵻk/ ''KLIT-ik'', [[Back-formation|backformed]] from [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] ἐγκλιτικός ''enklitikos'' "leaning" or "enclitic") is a [[morpheme]] that has syntactic characteristics of a word, but depends [[phonology|phonologically]] on another word or phrase. In this sense, it is syntactically independent but phonologically dependent—always attached to a host. A clitic is pronounced like an [[affix]], but plays a syntactic role at the [[phrase]] level. In other words, clitics have the ''form'' of affixes, but the distribution of [[function word]]s.

Clitics can belong to any grammatical category, although they are commonly [[pronoun]]s, [[determiner]]s, or [[adposition]]s. Note that [[orthography]] is not always a good guide for distinguishing clitics from affixes: clitics may be written as separate words, but sometimes they are joined to the word they depend on (like the Latin clitic ''-que'', meaning "and") or separated by special characters such as [[hyphen]]s or [[apostrophe]]s (like the English clitic '''s'' in "it's" for "it has" or "it is").

==See also==

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Nick at 06:20, 13 February 2025

Nick: New page: In morphology and syntax, a '''clitic''' (/ˈklɪtᵻk/ ''KLIT-ik'', backformed from Greek ἐγκλιτικός ''enk...