| The intermediate status of clitics poses a considerable challenge to linguistic theory. |
| Except for Obi-Wan, the good guys in the Star Wars original trilogy all spoke colloquial American English, clitics and all. |
| One important distinction divides the broad term 'clitics' into two categories, simple clitics and special clitics. |
| The clitics attract the verbal object out of the VP and thereby allow the object to be topicalised. |
| There are also a number of examples of endoclitics whereby clitics appear followed by affixes. |
| The subject pronouns are used only for emphasis and take the stress, and as a result are not clitics. |
