oikoclitic
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos) + clitic.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɔɪkə(ʊ)klɪtɪk/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɔɪkoʊklɪtɪk/
Adjective
oikoclitic (not comparable)
- (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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