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Re: THEORY: Xpositions in Ypositional languages {X,Y}={pre,post}

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Monday, September 24, 2007, 10:09
Quoting Eric Christopherson <rakko@...>:

> A little more on topic, another putative phenomenon is endoclitics -- > clitics which occur inside of words (either between morphemes or > within them). They are thought by some (e.g. Judith Klavans and > Arnold Zwicky) not to exist, but others (e.g. Alice Harris and > Ethelbert Karl) disagree. They seem to occur in at least Udi, Pashto, > and Degema. > > Then there are also mesoclitics, which occur between morphemes within > a word in Portuguese. I don't see why some so-called endoclitics > (i.e. the ones between morphemes) shouldn't be called mesoclitics.
Examples? Andreas

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