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27 days ago johnmperry said:

A grammatically independent and phonologically dependent word. It is pronounced like an affix, but works at the phrase level. For example, the English possessive -'s is a clitic; in the phrase the girl next door’s cat, -’s is phonologically attached to the preceding word door while grammatically combined with the phrase the girl next door, the possessor.

7 months ago bilby said:

lol sarra!

7 months ago sarra said:

tragically, this would be the most apropos entry in my linguistics is sexy list yet

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