📺 Clitics: “there’dn’t’ve”
clitic (plural clitics) (linguistics) A morpheme that functions like a word, but never appears as an independent word, instead being always attached to a following or preceding word (or, in some cases, within a surrounding word). e.g. It’s, should’ve, shouldn’t’ve. There are 2 reasons [for why/when clitics can be applied] Syntatic Gap — A clitic implies another word shoud follow e.g. “Who do you think you’re _____?” Stress patterns — These forms are generaly unsrtesse or week....