# clitic

> morpheme with syntactic characteristics of a word but with phonological dependence on another word; e.g. ⟨-’m⟩ in ⟨I’m⟩ or ⟨-’ve⟩ in ⟨I’ve⟩; the possessive ⟨-’s⟩, the article ⟨a(n)⟩, and the infinitive marker ⟨to⟩ are sometimes considered clitics

**Wikidata**: [Q213458](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213458)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clitic)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/clitic


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. YSO-Wikidata mapping project
3. National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File
4. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)