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Re: Theory about the evolution of languages

From:Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 18, 2004, 23:37
Joe wrote:
> J. 'Mach' Wust wrote: > >> On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 15:18:35 +0200, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> >> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Quoting "J. 'Mach' Wust" <j_mach_wust@...>: >>> >>> >>> >>>> A clitic of what word? >>>> >>>> >>> ? I do not understand this question. >>> >>> >> >> Clitics are words that are phonetically melted with others, e.g. the >> present third person singular of to be's often cliticized. The 'Saxon >> genitive'-s is not a word phonetically melted with others; therefore, >> it's >> not a clitic, but rather an ending. >> >> > > I don't think so. I think it's a suffix that is attached to a phrase > rather than a word. Which ''s' is.
I think of clitics as a type of morpheme that is something between an affix and a word: attached to a word, like an affix, but placed relative to a phrase, like a word.