Question
In linguistics, a clitic is a unit that behaves syntactically like a word, but cannot stand alone phonologically. For 10 points each:
[10m] Clitics are sometimes classified as this kind of morpheme, which never appears as an independent word. Affixes are a subtype of these morphemes, which are contrasted with free morphemes.
ANSWER: bound morphemes
[10e] “Clitic climbing,” in which a clitic moves from an embedded clause to the main clause, is common in this Latin-descended language family that includes Spanish and French.
ANSWER: Romance languages
[10h] With Arnold Zwicky, this Scottish-born linguist argued that the English negation n’t is an inflectional affix, not a clitic. An essay by this coiner of the term “eggcorn” calls the idea that Inuit peoples have dozens of words for snow a “great… vocabulary hoax.”
ANSWER: Geoffrey Pullum [or Geoffrey Keith Pullum] (Pullum originally titled the essay “The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax.”)
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Summary
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 04/19/2025 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
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| Minnesota | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |