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Meanings of enclitic in English

Russian
клитики
Portuguese
clítico
Spanish
mesoclítico
Catalan
enclític

Morpheme with syntactic characteristics of a word but with phonological dependence on another word; e.g.

клитики
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Usage of enclitic in English
1
A very important word may be enclitic, as in English don't, shan't.
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2
From earliest times some words have become parasitic or enclitic upon other words.
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3
I was explaining that 'enclitic de' in Browning's Grammarian's Funeral.
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Translations for enclitic
Portuguese
clítico
Enclitic through the time