oikoclitic

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos) + clitic.

Pronunciation

Adjective

oikoclitic (not comparable)

  1. (Romani linguistics) Having a inflection and stress pattern characteristic of pre-European vocabulary.
    Antonym: xenoclitic
    • 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, page 72:
      In the oblique, the vowel of the oikoclitic singular masculine marker has been assimilated to the vowel of the Greek-derived nominative markers.
    • 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 7:
      In the oikoclitic compartment, there are two distinct classes of vocalic and zero adjectives.
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