Host

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In morphosyntax, a host is an element to which a clitic attaches.

Examples

In That's good, the host of the clitic 's is the word that.

Polysemy

Perhaps also sometimes used as a synonym of base, i.e. as 'host of an affix or a morphological process'.

Other languages

German Wirt


Link

Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics