In morphology and syntax, a clitic ( , backformed from Greek "leaning" or "enclitic"Crystal, David. A First Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1980. Print.) is a morpheme that has syntactic characteristics of a word, but depends phonologically on another word or phrase. In this sense, it is syntactically independent but phonologically dependent—always attached to a host.SIL International (2003). SIL Glossary of Linguistic Terms: What is a clitic? "This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003." Retrieved from . A clitic is pronounced like an affix, but plays a syntactic role at the phrase level. In other words, clitics have the form of affixes, but the distribution of function words.
In morphology and syntax a clitic (  backformed from Greek "leaning" or "enclitic"Crystal David A First Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics Boulder CO Westview 1980 Print) is a morpheme that has syntactic characteristics of a word but depends phonologically on another word or phrase In this sense it is syntactically independent but phonologically dependent—always attached to a hostSIL International (2003) SIL Glossary of Linguistic Terms What is a clitic "This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library Version 50 published on CD-ROM by SIL International 2003" Retrieved from  A clitic is pronounced like an affix but plays a syntactic role at the phrase level In other words clitics have the form of affixes but the distribution of function words