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enclitic
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enclitic
having the planes of the fetal head inclined to those of the maternal pelvis.


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Their topics include topic accent and prosodic structure, negation and focus class in Sardinian, the informational structure and the scope of lexical modality in spoken Italian, two functions of verb-subject order in Old Italian, the diachronic rearrangement of information structure in the position of clitic pronouns in Italian, information structure in Slavic languages, and acquiring the grammar of topicality in Italian as a second language.
Hopper and Traugott (2003: 7) found the road for grammaticalization as in (12): 12) content item > grammatical word > clitic > inflectional affix "Content item" changes to "grammatical word" mainly by semantic bleaching, and becomes "clitic" and finally "inflectional affix" by phonological and morphological reduction.
Secondo Maiden (170), il quale riprende Rohlfs, si tratta di una forma di probabile origine gallo-romanza anziche italo-romanza: "Its exotic origins are reflected in its still imperfect integration into the clitic system: unlike other clitics it is bisyllabic.
 
 
 
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