verb
- to convert a word or morpheme into a clitic, or to attach a clitic to another word
Usage: linguistics; technical
Examples
- In many languages, pronouns cliticize onto the verb stem.
- The auxiliary verb will cliticize to form the contraction 'll.
- Linguists study how certain particles cliticize in Romance languages.
- The preposition may cliticize with the following noun in casual speech.
- Researchers observed that the article cliticizes differently across dialects.