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Enclitic
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Enclitic 

an unstressed word that in speech becomes attached to the previous stressed word. The two words together form an accentual unit, or phonetic word. The most common enclitics in Russian are particles, such as by, zhe, -ka, li, and -to, as in gdé-by and ddi-ka. Pronouns, nouns, and verbs, depending on the context, can also function as enclitics, as in the sentence Gdé byl étot chelovék? (“Where was that man?”)
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Compare this failure of the preverbal particle to encliticize with the behavior of the article, which we have shown to encliticize freely to any preceding item: (3f), repeated here as (19), contrasts neatly with (18) in illustrating cliticization of the article 'r to the initial element in CP: (19) Mi wn i [mai'r bachgen sydd yn sgwennu, nid y ferch].
At the interface: selection of the Welsh definite article (1) by Hannahs, S.J.; Tallerman, Maggie / Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
Specifically, the definite article -(u)l for singular masculine and neuter encliticizes on the supine, as in (3a).
The gray area of supine clauses * by Hill, Virginia / Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
 
 
 
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