Re: THEORY: Auxiliaries

Jean-François Colson scripsit:

> > I doubt I'd know a clitic if it jumped up and bit me
>
> The problem is that you forgot the beginning of the word. An enclitic (in
> French: un enclitique) is a dull word which has the property to take supp=
> ort
> on a preceding word, carrying tone, and which is linked with it in the
> pronunciation.
Just so, and a proclitic is the same, but comes before its supporting
word.  "Clitic" is a general term covering both enclitics and proclitics.
French "je" can be either an enclitic or a proclitic.

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