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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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This is the sense that appeared with clitic dative subject in meseems.
The parameter of choosiness vs. promiscuity is crucial in differentiating the categories of word, affix, and clitic.
In more prestigious varieties of Spanish, the clitic and object noun phrase are in complementary distribution.
Granted, there is a possibility that the clitic forms had not yet evolved 200 years ago.
While the two variants carry similar meaning and phonological makeup, the special clitic is bound to a host word and unaccented.
The status of the possessive as an affix or a clitic is the subject of debate.

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