Rara #74

Legacy number: 74

 Number  74
 Phenomenon  endoclitics occurring not only inside morphologically complex words, but even within monomorphemic words, with the positioning of the clitic
(a)regulated by one general phonological rule,
(b) not regulated by a general phonological rule, although when endoclitic to simple verbs, the clitic always comes before the last segment of the verb stem (subject person-number markers are cliticized to constituents in focus, being always enclitic with arguments in focus, but en- or endo-clitic with verbs in focus)
 Found in  (a) English (Germanic, IE) (?);

(b) Udi (NE Caucasian)
 Domain  phonology, morphology, syntax — word integrity
 Type  rarissimum
 Keywords  clitic, endoclitic
 Source  Harris, Alice C. (2000). Where in the word is the Udi clitic? Language 76: 593-616.
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examples for (a): Ala=fuckin=BAma, fan=bloomin=TAStic; but are fuckin?, bloomin?, etc. CLITICS? For one thing, they are categorially rather selective, combining only with nouns.
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Frans Plank · 21 Sep 2006
examples for (a):
Ala=fuckin=BAma, fan=bloomin=TAStic;
but are fuckin', bloomin', etc. CLITICS? For one thing, they are categorially rather selective, combining only with nouns.