English

Noun

endoclitic ‎(plural endoclitics)

1. (linguistics): A mesoclitic; a clitic inserted inside a word.
   • 2003, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, 2: Typological parameters for the study of clitics, with special reference to Tariana, R. M. W. Dixon, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (editors), Word: A Cross-Linguistic Typology, page 44,

     There are also a number of examples of endoclitics (also known as 'mesoclisis') whereby clitics appear followed by affixes.

   • 2004, Craig Kopris, Rapid MT Experience in an LCTL (Pashto), Robert E. Frederking, Kathryn B. Taylor (editors), Machine Translation: From Real Users to Research: 6th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Springer, LNAI 3265, page 130,

     Other syntactic complexities of Pashto include endoclitics and frequent discontinuous constituents.

   • 2012, Geert Booij, The Grammar of Words: An Introduction to Linguistic Morphology, page 186,

     The category of word-internal clitics (endoclitics) in Udi, a Caucasian language, is analysed in Harris (2002).

Synonyms

• (clitic inserted inside a word): mesoclitic

Coordinate terms

• enclitic
• proclitic

Related terms

• clitic