Clitic

/klˈɪtɪk/

/klˈɪɾɪk/

Clitic

a linguistic element that functions as a word but behaves phonologically or syntactically as a bound morpheme, often attaching to other words and lacking independent stress or full syntactic independence

Examples

1. So let's move on from clitics and look at negative suppletives.

2. So in Arabic, you get pronominal clitics and some of these sort of joining words like so, and and, and they are sort of written together as one word, where arguably that they should really be four words.

3. So, a language like French has these sort of little clitics for the first sort of pronouns.

4. If we compare: a free form not clitic let's look at this first - look at the person on the right.