1) Unit of linguistic morphology
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In morphology and syntax, a clitic (from Greek κλιτικός klitikos, `inflexional`) is a morpheme that has syntactic characteristics of a word, but depends phonologically on another word or phrase. The term is derived from the Greek for `leaning`. It is pronounced like an affix, but plays a syntactic role at the phrase level. In other wor...
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(from the article `Greek language`) ...of an earlier long -vowel in the genitive plural—e.g., mathímata becomes mathimáton `lesson` (nominative or genitive plural). The addition of ...
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