2006-11-13 04:11:07 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
There are no clitics in the English language!
2006-11-13 08:29:56 · answer #1 · answered by kamelåså 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Well, the "of" in o'clock is not a pronoun. If you ask for the enclitics I think some of them are "I'm", "you're", "I've" and etc. that is the contracted forms.
But o'clock does sound like a clitic to me too, just not sure whether it's a proclitic pronoun. Some proclitics are "an egg, a table", etc.
2006-11-13 13:24:43 · answer #2 · answered by Earthling 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Purple is right. English doesn't really have proclitic pronouns; the "o" in "o'clock" is a preposition, not a pronoun.
2006-11-13 13:59:32 · answer #3 · answered by kslnet 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The 'o in "o'clock" has already been explained.
As for proclitic pronouns -- there aren't really any in modern English, but consider the following forms derived from possessive pronouns preceding nouns:
milady (or m'lady) for "my lady"
milord (or m'lord) for "my lord"
and perhaps other uses of titles used as forms of address, e.g., "yer honor" [spoken as a proclitic, even if written "your honor" ]
the minced oath 'sblood - commonly explained as short for "God's blood", but may be from "HIS blood"
(same for other forms like 'snails, zounds [from 'swounds], 'streuth [from 'struth])
If these are dismissed, the pretty much does it for pronominal PRO-clitics. But that doesn't rule out EN-clitics. How about "Let's" ! Perhaps also the abbreviated forms for him, her and them often found after verbs in colloquial speech, e.g., get'm!
2006-11-14 10:17:33 · answer #4 · answered by bruhaha 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the o' in this is an abreavation for Of the
2006-11-13 12:14:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
o'no..u need a life
2006-11-13 12:13:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋