Associations to the word «Enclitic»

Wiktionary

ENCLITIC, noun. (linguistics) A clitic which phonetically joins with the preceding word. In English, the possessive 's is an example.
ENCLITIC, adjective. (grammar) Affixed phonetically.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky