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

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Date:Friday, October 29, 1999, 16:27
Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 29/10/99 14:14:01  , vous avez =E9crit :

> > no, no. i was wrong with (en)clitics. first because clitics cannot be > > inflected for definition. > =20 > Yes they can. Spanish "el/la/los/las" and French "le/la/les" are > clitics. A clitic is merely a form which is phonologically attached to > the following/preceding word, but is not a affix. (Well, slight > simplification there)
so separable "articles" are clitics ? then maybe french japanese teachers call ga, wo, ni, wa, etc. "enclitiques" because they see them as a special kind of (apo-/post-)clitics. mathias