Re: Reflexive (was Re: Help on Verbs...)

Ed Heil wrote:

> In the classical languages at least, (en)clitics are defined, as Nik
> said, in terms of suprasegmental phonology.
> Clitics don't have to be any special part of speech or have any
> special function; they just have to become part of another word for
> accent purposes.
Last time, it was me who got beat up for saying "the" is not a clitic.
In some sense it is a "detachable clitic", because a whole crowd of words
can be between it and the noun. But the "clitic-clitic" (?) is really attached
more closely, like "s'" + verb. Or something like that, sortamaybe.