KnowraCliticLinked fromLinked fromThe 9 pages that link to Clitic, each with the reason it gives.All 9Related 2Narrower topic 1Compared with 6InflectionCompared with: Clitics can express grammatical relations but do not fit neatly into inflectional morphology.Word (linguistics)Compared with: Clitics expose the mismatch between grammatical independence and sound-based word boundaries.AdpositionCompared with: Some adpositions resemble clitics in pronunciation, but their syntactic status differs.Function wordCompared with: Clitics perform function-word-like work but do not behave as independent phonological words.DeclensionCompared with: Clitics can express grammatical relations without being ordinary inflectional endings.Word stemCompared with: Clitics attach prosodically, unlike affixes that form morphological words with stems.