- What is enclitic in linguistics?
- What is an enclitic in Latin?
- What is an example of clitic in Spanish?
- What is the word order in Croatian?
What is enclitic in linguistics?
enclitic (plural enclitics) (linguistics) A clitic that joins with the preceding word phonetically, graphically, or both. The English possessive 's is an enclitic.
What is an enclitic in Latin?
(ɪnˈklɪtɪk ) adjective. a. denoting or relating to a monosyllabic word or form that is treated as a suffix of the preceding word, as Latin -que in populusque.
What is an example of clitic in Spanish?
In Spanish, the weak personal pronouns se, me, te, lo(s), la(s), le(s), nos and os are clitics, requiring a verbal host either to their right or to their left, depending on the nature of the verb form, infinitives and positive imperative forms calling for pronominal enclisis and tensed finite forms calling for ...
What is the word order in Croatian?
As in other Slavic languages, the basic word order is subject–verb–object (SVO), but the declensions show sentence structure and so word order is not as important as in more analytic languages, such as English or Chinese.