(9) Clitic-initial Phrases as (Wrong) Headwords: Nominal Entries ka-kyeyyak ('a provisional agreement'), kwu-ceyto ('the old system'), ki-sip (man wen) ('hundreds of thousands won'), nal-sayngsen ('raw fish'), no-kyoswu ('an old professor'), ta-mokcek ('multi-purpose'), pan-man (nyen) ('five-thousand years'), pemsahoycek ('pan-national'), pi-sayngsancek ('unproductive'), swu-chen (kay) ('several thousand pieces'), … The clitic words in (9) come before nouns and modify these nouns and, hence, can be categorized as adnominals.
not all sense units show the same degree of autonomy (Croft & Cruse 2004).