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A 'clitic' is defined in linguistics as a:
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- 1Free morpheme that does not carry semantic meaning
- 2Bound word that phonologically depends on a host but behaves syntactically like a phrase element (e.g., 's, 'll)✓
- 3Tone-based morpheme used in tonal languages to indicate tense
- 4Nasal inflected suffix used in passive voice transformations
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Bound word that phonologically depends on a host but behaves syntactically like a phrase element (e.g., 's, 'll)
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