Dictionary Check: clitic
"clitic" is a valid word!
Scrabble
10
points
Words with Friends
13
points
Definition
noun
a word that is treated in pronunciation as forming a part of a neighboring word and that is often unaccented or contracted.
Example:
"Most languages can adopt theme-rheme structure idiosyncratically — as for English, we often use as for theme constructions — but topic-prominent languages use systematic changes in syntax or even dedicated morpological elements such as the Japanese clitic particle ‘-wa’ to mark themes and to set them apart from rhemes."
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