endoclitic

English

Etymology

From endo- +‎ clitic.

Noun

endoclitic (plural endoclitics)

  1. (linguistics) A mesoclitic; a clitic inserted inside a word.
    • 2003, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, “2: Typological parameters for the study of clitics, with special reference to Tariana”, in R. M. W. Dixon, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, editors, Word: A Cross-Linguistic Typology, page 44:
      There are also a number of examples of endoclitics (also known as 'mesoclisis') whereby clitics appear followed by affixes.
    • 2004, Craig Kopris, Rapid MT Experience in an LCTL (Pashto), Robert E. Frederking, Kathryn B. Taylor (editors), Machine Translation: From Real Users to Research: 6th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Springer, LNAI 3265, page 130,
      Other syntactic complexities of Pashto include endoclitics and frequent discontinuous constituents.
    • 2012, Geert Booij, The Grammar of Words: An Introduction to Linguistic Morphology‎, page 186:
      The category of word-internal clitics (endoclitics) in Udi, a Caucasian language, is analysed in Harris (2002).

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