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Things clitic often describes ("clitic ________")
- inversion
- reduplication
- climbing
- chain
- distribution
- structures
- trace
- pronoun
- rule
- domain
- languages
- rules
- auxiliary
- host
- doubling
- boundary
- combinations
- counterparts
- complex
- ordering
- auxiliaries
- verbs
- projection
- object
- element
- forms
- head
- omission
- promotion
- position
- particle
- heads
- group
- adverbs
- phrase
- raising
- clustering
- moves
- sequence
- reflexives
- phrases
- string
- cluster
- status
- formation
- verb
- elements
- groups
- objects
- phenomenon
- analysis
- subjects
- resumption
- constructions
- chains
- syntax
- positions
- copy
- placement
- sequences
- agreement
- distinction
- node
- boundaries
- marker
- form
- dislocation
- construction
- positioning
- article
- pronouns
- dependencies
- subject
- attachment
- order
- configurations
- facts
- phenomena
- clusters
- paradigm
- movement
- particles
How clitic often is described ("________ clitic")
- third
- empty
- deictic
- spanish
- nominative
- preverbal
- negative
- mediopassive
- referential
- simple
- nominal
- durative
- impersonal
- obligatory
- invariable
- interrogative
- pleonastic
- accusative
- italian
- modal
- possessive
- plural
- individuating
- dual
- object
- null
- overt
- ergative
- person
- subject
- appropriate
- declarative
- emphatic
- oblique
- phrasal
- second
- postverbal
- corresponding
- pronominal
- absolutive
- auxiliary
- substantive
- vocalic
- direct
- locative
- reflexive
- genitive
- indirect
- anaphoric
- singular
- dative
- neuter
- expletive
- optional
- phonological
- resumptive
- syntactic
- prepositional
- partitive
- case
- silent
- special
- bound
- feminine
- verbal
- adverbial
- demonstrative
