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Red Thread of Croatian and Yukatek (Maya): What Could Be Common In the Two Languages?

In the comparison of two typologically different languages, Yukatek Maya and Croatian, three typological features were taken into account: morphological richness, pro-drop, and word order. It is argued that these features bring about verbal independency. This ‘ second-order’ feature of the two typologically distant languages accounts for verbal primacy very soon after the language acquisition process starts. The fact is that these three features are not identically represented in both languages: Croatian is a typical pro-drop language, while Yukatek only is comparable in terms of dropping lexical arguments as well as independent pronouns, but not cross- reference person markers ; regardless of their typological differences in morphology (inflectional vs. agglutinative), both languages have rich morphology on verbs ; the fact that in Yukatek the canonical word order is V(O)(S) and in Croatian the word order is relatively free, makes for a high percentage of utterances in which the verb is in initial position.

Croatian language; Yukatek Maya

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