verb
- converted into or treated as a clitic; reduced to a clitic form in linguistic analysis or language change
Usage: linguistics; past tense and past participle of cliticize
Examples
- The auxiliary verb was cliticized over time, becoming attached to the main verb.
- In many Romance languages, object pronouns have been cliticized onto the verb stem.
- Linguists observed that the preposition had cliticized with the following noun phrase.
- The article was cliticized in the dialect, losing its independent stress.
- As the language evolved, the negation marker cliticized onto the verb form.