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Proclitic

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Proclitic 

an unstressed word (often monosyllabic) closely bound in a phrase to a following word, which has a stress. For example, in na stené (”on the wall”) and ty khodíl (”you walked”), na and ty are proclitics. Proclitics are usually articles, prepositions, particles, negatives, or conjunctions.
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The proclitic negative particle ne often merges with the verb stem giving forms like nylle or nolde.
Markers of futurity in Old English and the grammaticalization of ... by Wischer, Ilse / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
But even since these forthcoming articles were completed, "new enclitic and proclitic counts" by Tarlinskaja have altered Elliott and Valenza's "Shakespeare range minima from 43/365 to 27/265, both more favorable than the old ones to a Shakespeare ascription" for A Lover's Complaint.
A Lover's Complaint revisited by Jackson, MacD.P. / Shakespeare Studies
The first part is formed from the imperfect participle of the future auxiliary verb we and the finite auxiliary CbM, the second part from the particle [partial derivative]a (a proclitic with conjunctive function) and the present tense of the main verb.
Typology of grammaticalized evidentiality in Bulgarian and ... by Kehayov, Petar / Linguistica Uralica
 
 
 
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