xenoclitic

Adjective

xenoclitic (not comparable)

1. (Romani linguistics) Having an inflection and stress pattern characteristic of European vocabulary.
   • The plural oblique of xenoclitic classes was not distinct from that of oikoclitic classes in ER.2006, Viktor Elšík, Yaron Matras, “Early Romani”, in Markedness and Language Change: The Romani Sample (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology; 32), Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, →LCCN, pages 72–73
   • Although there are some similarities between oikoclitic and xenoclitic classes - perhaps most noticeably the constant plural oblique -en (though with a variant -jen restricted to the oikoclitic classes), an inflection that is clearly indigenous - there are also striking differences.2008, Bernard Comrie, “Inflectional morphology and language contact, with special reference to mixed languages”, in Monika Rothweiler, Juliane House, Peter Siemund, editors, Language Contact and...

   Antonyms:

   oikoclitic