Definition
A proclitic is a clitic that precedes the word to which it is phonologically joined.
Examples
(English)
The English article the, when unstressed and with a reduced vowel, is a proclitic, as in the following:
Sources 4
- Crystal 1980, 64
- Hartmann and Stork 1972, 185
- Pei and Gaynor 1954, 176
- Mish 1991, 938