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enclitic

(en-klit′ik) [L. encliticus, fr Gr. enklitikos, leaning on]

Having the planes of the fetal head inclined to those of the maternal pelvis.

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The first type of phrasal stressing is conditionally called proclitic, the second type enclitic. The ratio of enclitic phrases (calculated per 1000 of the lines) is a good way of differentiating authorship, e.g., the scenes belonging to Shakespeare and Fletcher in The Two Noble Kinsmen (1613).

The Boundaries of John Marston's Dramatic Canon

Ordonez F and Repetti L (2006) Stressed enclitics? In: Montreuil J-P (ed.) New Analyses on Romance Linguistics: Volume II: Phonetics, Phonology and Dialectology (Selected Papers from the 35th LSRL 35).

Where did all the dialects go? Aspects of the influence of Italian on dialects

Gerace (Reggio Calabria) a 'seddza 'tua la sedia tua Putignano (Bari) u 'kane 'meje/'tcwe/'scwe il cane mio/tuo/ suo Taranto a 'skarpa 'mi:je la scarpa mia (Manzini and Savoia 560-61) In these dialects, possessive constructions with kinship terms (and a few other nouns, such as casa) are also unique, since the possessive is enclitic to the noun and the definite article does not appear.

L'italiano in movimento: teaching a moving target

(14.) Canepari, in il MaPI (p.153) allows for the possibility of post-tonic stress in enclitics, as in

Italian vowel clusters in singing, Part I: syllable, vowel length, and stress

In this case the PW consists of the GW augmented by proclitics and/or enclitics, thus resembling the clitic group (CG) domain (Nespor and Vogel 1986).

Directional asymmetries in the morphology and phonology of words, with special reference to Bantu

Each of these verb phrases contains ordered segments including incorporated nominals, bound Benefactive pronouns and enclitics marking tense, mood and aspect.

"Too long, that wangga': analysing wangga texts over time

The Hungarian verbal suffix 1/3PSg -k is generally derived more or less plausibly from (reflexive) enclitics. (See e.g.

On the Uralic verbal personal (*)k-markers/[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]

On Greek enclitics, see Herbert Weir Smyth, Greek Grammar, ed.

Increasing suspicion about Browning's Grammarian

She has a special interest in combinations of two monosyllabic lexical words, and particularly in "enclitics": combinations in which the first word appears to require more stress than the second (the ballad term "true love," for example) (134).

Stress felt, stroke dealt: the spondee, the text, and the reader

Recognizing the incongruity (45), Momma wisely eliminates the distinction between proclitics and enclitics in her reinterpretation of Kuhn's laws--as do most of Kuhn's interpreters, in practice if not explicitly, a point duly noted (46 n.

The Composition of Old English Poetry

Such change of accent in enclitics, he remarks, results in removal of formal coincidence (48, p.

Appollonius Dyscolus and the ambiguity of ambiguity

"Author X's" text in LC stands out: the ratio of enclitics is too high for Ford, 121.6 per 1000 of lines.