xenoclitic

English

Etymology

From xeno- + clitic.

Pronunciation

Adjective

xenoclitic (not comparable)

  1. (Romani linguistics) Having a inflection and stress pattern characteristic of European vocabulary.
    Antonym: oikoclitic
    • 2006, Viktor Elšík; Yaron Matras, “Early Romani”, in Markedness and Language Change: The Romani Sample (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology; 32), Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, LCCN 2005036353, pages 72-73:
      The plural oblique of xenoclitic classes was not distinct from that of oikoclitic classes in ER.
    • 2008, Bernard Comrie, “Inflectional morphology and language contact, with special reference to mixed languages”, in Monika Rothweiler; Juliane House; Peter Siemund, editors, Language Contact and Contact Languages (Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism), John Benjamins, →ISBN, LCCN 2008005166, page 20:
      Although there are some similarities between oikoclitic and xenoclitic classes - perhaps most noticeably the constant plural oblique -en (though with a variant -jen restricted to the oikoclitic classes), an inflection that is clearly indigenous - there are also striking differences.
    • 2017, Michael Beníšek, Eastern Uzh varieties of North Central Romani, Charles University, page 100:
      Oikoclitic participles are based on the perfective stem of verbs, while xenoclitic participles are marked by a special participial suffix.
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