heterocliticon

English

heterocliticon (plural heteroclitica)

In Indo-European linguistics, a term which is heteroclitic, i.e. which has different stem forms depending on grammatical case.
- 2020 September 25, David Sasseville, Anatolian Verbal Stem Formation: Luwian, Lycian and Lydian, BRILL, →ISBN, page 192:
  Overall, this solution is more straightforward and eliminates the unnecessary denominative verb derived directly from the heterocliticon, which was previously posited by scholars. Concerning the semantics of the verb […]
- 2024 July 23, Jared S. Klein, Arturas Ratkus, Studies in Gothic, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 130:
  An idea which he discusses, but ultimately does not accept, is that the heterogeneity is due to the word's having been an original r/n-heterocliticon (Darms 1978: 185; cf. more recently Kroonen 2013: 97). This might in fact explain the two Old Norse forms more easily, but fails to explain the apparent s-stem inflection in Old English and also forces us to keep […]