postclitic Linguistics.
(pəʊstˈklɪtɪk)
[f. post- A. 1 b + clitic.]
An unemphatic word stressed as part of the preceding word.
| 1963 Bloomfield & Newmark Linguistic Introd. Hist. Eng. iv. 147 The is a proclitic in NE..and one, as in a bad one or the green one, is a postclitic. 1965 Language XLI. 473 As many as five syllables occur prestressed, but only one syllable occurs poststressed, except rarely when a postclitic follows a suffix. |