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Sm’algyax
Clitics
table 4. Dimensions of Sm’algyax clitics
Prosodic
Structure
Predicative
Connectives Internal
Attributive
Connectives
Possessive
Clitic
Modifier
and Locative
Clitics
Clause Initial
Clitics
Subjective
Dependent
Pronouns
Clitic
Affixal Clitic
Syntactic
Domain
Location
within Domain
noun phrase left edge
modifier
phrase
right edge
noun phrase left edge
noun phrase left edge
predicate
phrase
left of head
Direction of
Attachment
left (= enclitic)
right (= proclitic)
PWd Clitic clause left edge right (= proclitic)
Internal
Clitic (clause
initial clitic
host)
PWd Clitic
(lexical word
host)
predicate
phrase
left-most
element
right (= proclitic),
left (= enclitic),
left or right (=
flexiclitic),
both left and right
(= circumclitic)
right (=proclitic)
Internal Clitics may be located with respect to the left edge (e.g., the predicative connectives),
the right edge (e.g., the attributive connectives) or the left-most element of the
phrase (e.g., the subjective dependent pronouns with a clause initial clitic host), but, with
the exception of the subjective dependent pronouns, the Internal Clitics attach as enclitics.
In contrast, Affixal Clitics (e.g., the possessive clitic and the modifier and locative clitics)
and PWd Clitics (e.g., the clause initial clitics and the subjective dependent pronouns
with a lexical word host) are located either at the left edge, to the left of the head or with
respect of the left-most element of the syntactic domain, but they all attach to the right as
proclitics. 15
15 We return to the significance of this correlation in Section 3.2.
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