This document discusses enclitics in modern Greek grammar. It defines enclitics as one-syllable words that lose their accent or stress is moved to the last syllable of the preceding word. Common enclitics in Greek are weak personal and possessive pronouns like "mu" and "se". The document provides examples of how enclitics can cause the stress of the previous word to shift. It also discusses cases where the previous word does or does not take on the stress of an enclitic.

1. Modern Greek grammar

2. enclitics

3. Presentation by
Dimitra Kapnia
@dkapnia

4. What are enclitics ?

5. -Enclitics in modern Greek are called
some one-syllable words.
-These small words just lose their
accent / word stress, or that word
stress moves back to the last syllable
of the preceding word.

6. which parts of speech are
usually the enclitics?

7. Usually, enclitics are the week types of
personal and possessive pronouns
μου-[mu], με-[me], μας-[mas], σου-[su], σε-
[se], σας-[sas], τος-[tos], του-[tu], τον-[ton], τη-
[ti], τες-[tes], των [ton]

8. 2 examples

9. Example 1
μίλα του [míla tu]= talk to him
the enclitic "του" simply loses the word stress.
The previous word does not take a double
word stress

10. Example 2
Ο δάσκαλός μου [o δáskalós mu]= my teacher
the word "mu" throws the accent ( and word
stress) back to the last syllable of the word
δáskalos. There is a double stress

11. When does the previous word not take
the accent/ word stress of an enclitic?

12. The previous word does not take the
accent of an enclitic when it is
stressed to the penultimate syllable or
to the last syllable. μί-λα, χα-ρά, φί-
λος
μί-λα του [míla tu]= talk to him
Ο φίλος μου [ο fílos mu]= my friend

13. When does the previous word take the
accent/ word stress of an enclitic?

14. When does the previous word take the accent/ word stress of an
enclitic?
-The previous word takes the accent of an enclitic
when it is stressed to the antepenultimate syllable.
δά-σκα-λος, με-γα-λύ-τε-ρος , ά-κου-σε, α-νώ-τε-
ρος, α-κού-μπη-σε.
Ο δάσκαλός μου [o δáskalós mu]= my teacher
Άκουσέ τον [ákusé ton]= listen to him

15. When does the previous word take the accent/ word stress of an
enclitic?
-When there are two enclitics after a word
which is stressed to the penultimate
syllable, the stress of the last enclitic moves
to the previous one.
Δώσε μού το [δóse mú to]= give it to me
Φέρε μού το [fére mú to] = bring it to me

16. resources
 http://www.thefreedictionary.com/enclitic
 http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enclitic
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_%28lingu
istics%29
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clitic#Classificati
on
-Μανώλη Τριανταφυλλίδη:Νεοελληνική
γραμματική
-Γ. Μπαμπινιώτη: Λεξικό Νέας ελληνικής
γλώσσας

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