Clitic: clitic
(Please note: this part of the documentation is not yet completed.)
Language-specific feature identifying clitics attached to the word.
Moksha has four enclitic particles with partial geographical, morphological and phonetic complementary distribution, and all of them are used to express additive focus.
Add: Additive clitic -га/ге/ка/ке; -киге; -Онга; -вок
Expresses additive adverbal too, even.
Examples
- [mdf] Цёранясь сонцьке ашезе сода, мзяра кизоса мольсь школав. “Even the boy himself didn’t know how old he was when he (went/started) to school.”
AddGA: derivation with suffixes -га/ге/ка/ке
Expresses additive adverbal too, even.
Examples
- [mdf] сонцьке “himself/herself too”
AddKige: derivation with suffixes -киге
Expresses additive adverbal too, even.
Examples
- [mdf] И Маринкась сргозсь ранакиге. “And Marinka woke up quite early”
AddNgA: derivation with suffix -Онга
Expresses additive adverbal too, even.
Examples
- [mdf] А кда токади ёфси сядонга кальдяв. “But when it touches, it is even worse”
AddVok: derivation with suffixes -вок
Expresses additive adverbal too, even.
Examples
- [mdf] бабасновок “their grandmother too”
- [mdf] Эста самолётовок теень афоль эряв,… “Then I wouldn’t even have needed an airplane,…”
I: derivation with suffixes -и/ы
Expresses adverbal even.
Examples
- [mdf] Сясы синь сембе и лётчикт, и космонавтт. “And that is why they are all both pilots and cosmonauts.”
Clitic in other languages: [cpg] [fi] [gl] [it] [kpv] [krl] [mdf] [myv] [olo] [orv] [pl] [quc] [sms] [vep] [wbp] [yrl]