摘要：The author discusses the relationship between naming and interpreting certain features of word order, especially of clitic placement. This discussion is based on a survey of linguistic terminology connected to the word order and clitic placement in Croatian language exhibited in 19th and 20th century grammars. Further she discusses the need for drawing a line between the grammatical and infomation sentence organization when discussing the word order. In the end the author proposes the possibility for improvement of a terminology concerning so called word order.
关键词：word order; ordering of syntactic units; clitics; obligatory word order; free word order; Croatian
