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Are clitics inflectional or derivational morphemes?

April 26, 2017derivational inflectional Morphemes

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Are clitics inflectional or derivational morphemes?

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The answer would depend on your definitions — and as we explained earlier, the categories of “inflection” and “derivation” are descriptive terms that really don’t have a strong theoretical basis. However, based on comparison to typical examples of inflectional and derivational affixes, the answer seems to be “neither”, in that clitics are not really lexical affixes at all.