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What is a clitic?

What is a clitic? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (linguistics) A morpheme that functions like a word, but never appears as an independent word, instead being always attached to a following or preceding word (or, in some cases, within a surrounding word).
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The status of the possessive as an affix or a clitic is the subject of debate.
French uses SOV by default, but in the common case where the subject is a clitic pronoun, the order is SVO instead.
This is the sense that appeared with clitic dative subject in meseems.
Moreover, de is not truly a clitic because, unlike clitics, it is not attached to the beginning or end of a phrase or clause.
The parameter of choosiness vs. promiscuity is crucial in differentiating the categories of word, affix, and clitic.
Moreover, clitic climbing is also prohibited in ru', 'i' H, and gi' constructions.

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