This study aims to investigate how animacy, givenness, and focus influence object order preference (direct‐indirect, indirect‐direct) in Croatian ditransitive structures. An online survey testing acceptability judgement of four target word orders in various contexts was conducted on 82 native speakers of Croatian. We found that all three factors have an effect on word order preference. The study revealed a preference for DO‐IO orders once animacy was neutralized, and found that focus influences object order more strongly than a simple given/new contrast. The word order with the widest contextual applicability is verb‐direct‐indirect, thus indicating the potential underlying status of this structure

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克罗地亚语双及物语中的动画、给予性和焦点对对象顺序的影响

本研究旨在调查克罗地亚双及物结构中的生命力、给予性和焦点如何影响对象顺序偏好（直接-间接、间接-直接）。对 82 名以克罗地亚语为母语的人进行了一项在线调查，测试了在各种上下文中对四个目标词序的可接受性判断。我们发现所有三个因素都会影响词序偏好。该研究揭示了一旦动画被中和后对 DO-IO 顺序的偏好，并发现焦点对物体顺序的影响比简单的给定/新对比更强烈。具有最广泛上下文适用性的词序是动词-直接-间接，从而表明该结构的潜在潜在状态