Persian clitics in virtual networks

Abstract

Today, almost everyone is a virtual network user. Currently, almost everything is done through the internet and social networks occupy a large part of this space. Meanwhile, the telegram network is an environment that allows people to do advertising, training, etc. at the highest speed. The study of clitics is an issue that has always been of interest to linguists. This article examines the Persian clitics in the telegram virtual network. The theoretical framework for conducting the research is Zwicky′s classification (1977), and the data were collected by library method and analyzed by analytical method. The results of the research show that three types of simple, special and dependent clitics can be found in the studied corpus. These clitics, which prevent affixation, are used as an enclitic in Persian language. The findings include four types of simple clitics, two types of special clitics, and four types of dependent clitics, that each one has a different frequency. The results also indicate that the highest usage of the clitics is related to the dependent clitics and the lowest amount is related to the simple clitics in the whole corpus.