clitic

About 0.38 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A morpheme that functions like a word, but never appears as an independent word, instead being always attached to a following or preceding word (or, in some cases, within a surrounding word).

Similar words

resumptive doubling proclitic enclitic cliticization mesoclitic clitichood cleft sentence cliticalization clefting

Often followed by

is doubling pronouns climbing placement and pronoun in group

Word family

clitics