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Clitics Ñ, Î, È, Ë£, Ψ oo, ee, aa, um, een

In Tamil there is a class of constituents known as clitics, so-called because they can be suffixed to many different kinds of constituents but can never occur alone. They are therefore neither verbal nor nominal suffixes alone.The best study of Tamil clitics can be found in Arokianathan 1981.





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