Editing Clitic (section)

===Word order<!--'Wackernagel's Law' and 'Wackernagel's law' redirect here-->===
Clitics do not always appear next to the word or phrase that they are associated with grammatically. They may be subject to global word order constraints that act on the entire sentence. Many [[Indo-European languages]], for example, obey '''Wackernagel's law'''<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA--> (named after [[Jacob Wackernagel]]), which requires sentential clitics to appear in "second position", after the first syntactic phrase or the first stressed word in a clause:<ref name="klavans" /><ref name="walkden">{{Cite book
| vauthors=Wackernagel, W
| title =   On a law of Indo-European word order: Über ein Gesetz der indogermanischen Wortstellung 
| place = Berlin
| publisher = Language Science Press
| date = 2020
| format = pdf
| url = http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/270
| doi = 10.5281/zenodo.3978908 
| doi-access=free
| isbn = 978-3-96110-271-6 
}}</ref>
*[[Latin language|Latin]] had three enclitics that appeared in second or third position of a clause: ''-enim'' 'indeed, for', ''-autem'' 'but, moreover', ''-vero'' 'however'.  For example, ''quis enim (quisenim) potest negare?'' (from [[Martial]]'s epigram LXIV, literally "who indeed can deny [her riches]?"). Spevak (2010) reports that in her corpus of [[Caesar]], [[Cicero]] and [[Sallust]], these three words appear in such position in 100% of the cases.<ref>Spevak, Olga (2010). ''The Constituent Order of Classical Latin Prose''. In series: ''Studies in language Amsterdam / Companion series'' (vol. 117). {{ISBN|9027205841}}. Page 14.</ref>
* [[Russian language|Russian]] has one: ли ''(li)'' which acts as a general question marker. It always appears in second position in its sentence or proposition, and if the interrogation concerns one word in particular, that word is placed before it:
** Он завтра придёт ''(on zavtra pridyot)'', He'll arrive tomorrow.
** Придёт ли он завтра?, Will he arrive tomorrow?
** Завтра ли он придёт?, Is it tomorrow that he'll arrive?
** Он ли завтра придёт?, Is it he who'll arrive tomorrow?
** Я не знаю, придёт ли он завтра ''(Ya nye znayu, pridyot li on zavtra)'', I don't know if he'll arrive tomorrow.