1. Plural of cliticization; instances or processes in which a word or morpheme becomes a clitic (a linguistic element that is phonologically dependent on an adjacent word).
Usage: linguistics; technical term

Examples

• The cliticizations of pronouns in Romance languages show how independent words can lose stress and attach to verbs.
• Linguists study cliticizations to understand how languages evolve phonologically and morphologically.
• English contractions like 'don't' and 'can't' are examples of cliticizations in modern English.
• The cliticizations observed in this dialect suggest a shift toward more analytic grammar.
• Historical cliticizations have transformed the morphosyntax of many European languages.