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

From:Dr. David E. Bell <dbell@...>
Date:Friday, November 12, 1999, 23:15
> Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 29/10/99 02:03:26 , vous avez =E9crit : > > > > That's probably a clitic pronoun - like in French (am I right, > > > Mathias?). > > no, no. i was wrong with (en)clitics. first because clitics cannot be > inflected for definition. so Paul's (?) little front words are articles
like
> you said. of course you know that better than us (te, ten, ter etc.). > second because Didier reminds me that my teachers > were wrong calling them enclitics, they should say post- or proclitics. > so i guess reflexive pronoun is enough, don't you think ? > > mathias
I think you may be thinking of "particles" here. I don't think there is = a restriction on clitic inflections. David