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--- clitics [2019/07/22 23:51] – [Clitics in Nûrlâm] morgoth
+++ clitics [2022/07/21 17:14] (current) – separate spelling explained morgoth
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 ===== Clitics in Nûrlâm =====
-Clitics play an important role in [[Nûrlâm]]'s [[grammar]] and [[syntax]]. They are written as one word with their hosts or separated by hyphen but usually translated into English as separate words. Typical lexical categories that become clitics are:
+Clitics play an important role in [[Nûrlâm]]'s [[grammar]] and [[syntax]]. They are written as one word with their hosts or separated by hyphen but usually translated into English as separate words. Typical lexical categories that often used as clitics are:
   * [[adpositions|Postpositions]] attached to nouns and pronouns as [[grammar_case|case]] suffixes and to verbs as derivational affixes.
-  * Pronouns attached to verbs as suffixes of [[grammar_person|person]].
+  * Pronouns attached to verbs as suffixes or prefixes of [[grammar_person|person]].
   * [[grammar_adverb|Adverbs]] attached to verbs as suffixes of [[grammar_aspect|aspect]].
   * Short [[grammar_adjective|adjectives]], [[proform|pro-adjectives]] and [[pronouns#possessive_pronouns|possessive pronouns]] attached to noun without any grammar function but retaining [[syntax_determiner|determiner]] function in syntax.
   * [[pronouns#demonstrative_pronouns|Demonstrative pronouns]] attached to [[grammar_noun|noun]] as definite articles.
+  * Definite article //-um// (however may be treated as particularizing suffix).
+Only short single-syllable words become clitic.
+Since clitics often pronounced separately in colloquial speech, and were used instead of proper [[suffix_inflectional|inflectional]] (grammatical) suffixes, they became one of main reasons of shifting from [[morphology#morphological_typology_of_nurlam|agglutinative]] to [[syntax_analytic|analytical]] style of language.
+==== Concatenation vs. Separate spelling ====
+{{page>include:concatenation}}

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