To determine the authorship of a play it helps to calculate the ratio of proclitic and
enclitic phrases; syllabic suffixes -ed and -eth; pleonastic verbs "do"; grammatical inversions; the disyllabic form of the suffix -ion; and the frequency of rhythmical deviations from the metre used to emphasize the meaning of the situation described in the line ("rhythmical italics").
In some dialects of Imperia, Liguria, imperative phrases consisting of a verb plus
enclitic pronoun(s) can be pronounced with stress in various positions: on the verb, or on the penultimate or final syllable of the phrase.
Enclitic possessives in Lecce and surrounding towns.
The definite article la is less important than the adverb la, just as the preposition si and the reflexive
enclitic -si are less stressed phrasally than the interjection si, which usually stands alone in a sense "group."
The imperative forms in (55) show that
enclitics never count towards satisfying the bisyllabic minimality requirement (Myers 1995: 87-88):
Nominals are marked with the appropriate ordered case
enclitics: for example, retja=ni, 'for countrymen', and yivi=ndjen=sran, 'towards there now'.
The prescriptive scholar has not been interested in Greek for communication or in Greek philosophy and poetry: He settled Hoti's business--let it be!-- Properly based Oun-- Gave us the doctrine of the
enclitic De, Dead from the waist down.
344.10; Itkonen [1991], 206 points out that deviant constructions involving prepositions and
enclitic pronouns are also explained as cases of hyperbaton).
For example, the number of Rowley's run-on lines in The Changeling is 18.3 percent, the ratio of
enclitics 119.7 per 1000 lines, the number of syllabic -ed 15.5 per 1000 lines.
One wishes that the contributors had made more effort to furnish examples where the text of the Avesta can be substantially improved (with previously unrecognized linguistic forms and/ or meaning, rather than merely dots separating
enclitics, etc.) through their own meticulous collations and the use of different manuscripts from Geldner's.
(5) However, an unambiguous case of clitics marking verbal person is observed in Rama by Craig (n/d) (see Table 1): The person markers in question can be combined with plural marking
enclitics which would make it difficult to interpret them as prefixes.
There are alphabetized sections on word stems, postbases, word endings of verbs and nouns, and
enclitics, which precede 31 appendices covering, inter alia, such topics as inflection, roots and stems, kinship terms, ice and snow terms, time, location, counting, and names.