Editing Clitic (section)

=== Endoclitic ===

Some authors postulate endoclitics, which split a stem and are inserted between the two elements. For example, they have been claimed to occur between the elements of bipartite verbs (equivalent to English verbs such as ''take part'') in the [[Udi language]].<ref>{{cite book
 | last = Harris
 | first = Alice C.
 | year = 2002
 | title = Endoclitics and the Origins of Udi Morphosyntax
 | publisher = Oxford University Press
 | location = Oxford
 | isbn=0-19-924633-5
}}
</ref> Endoclitics have also been claimed for [[Pashto language|Pashto]]<ref>[[Craig Kopris|Craig A. Kopris]] & Anthony R. Davis ([[Apptek|AppTek]], Inc. / StreamSage, Inc.), September 18, 2005.  Endoclitics in Pashto: Implications for Lexical Integrity ([https://web.archive.org/web/20060507073023/http://morbo.lingue.unibo.it/mmm/mm5-abstracts/kopris-davis.pdf abstract pdf])</ref> and [[Degema language|Degema]].<ref>{{cite book
 | last = Kari
 | first = Ethelbert Emmanuel
 | year = 2003
 | title = Clitics in Degema: A Meeting Point of Phonology, Morphology, and Syntax
 | publisher = Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa
 | location = Tokyo
 | isbn=4-87297-850-1
}}
</ref>
However, other authors treat such forms as a sequence of clitics docked to the stem.<ref name=Haspelmath>[https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/007071 Martin Haspelmath (2022) 'Types of clitics in the world’s languages']</ref>