Linguipedia: New page: A '''Wackernagel clitic''' is a clitic that occurs in the second position in the clause. ===Example=== The Russian question particle ''li'' is such a clitic, e.g. ''Znaet li on ob...

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New page: A '''Wackernagel clitic''' is a clitic that occurs in the second position in the clause. ===Example=== The Russian question particle ''li'' is such a clitic, e.g. ''Znaet li on ob...

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A '''Wackernagel clitic''' is a [[clitic]] that occurs in the [[second position]] in the clause.

===Example===
The Russian question particle ''li'' is such a clitic, e.g. ''Znaet li on ob ètom?'' [knows PTCL he about this] 'Does he know about this?'

===Synonym===
[[second-position clitic]]

===Origin===
These clitics were described in a classical article by [[Jacob Wackernagel]] (1892), and when interest in these clitics reawakened the 1970s, they became known as Wackernagel cltics.

===Reference===
*Wackernagel, Jacob. 1892. Über ein Gesetz der indogermanischen Wortstellung. ''Indogermanische Forschungen'' 1. 333-436.

===Other languages===
German [[Wackernagel-Klitikon]]

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Linguipedia: New page: A '''Wackernagel clitic''' is a clitic that occurs in the second position in the clause. ===Example=== The Russian question particle ''li'' is such a clitic, e.g. ''Znaet li on ob...