English verbs can omit their objects when they describe routines

Autor:	Lelia Glass
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	050101 languages & linguistics 010104 statistics & probability Linguistics and Language Computer science 05 social sciences 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences English verbs 0101 mathematics 01 natural sciences Language and Linguistics Linguistics
Zdroj:	English Language and Linguistics. 26:49-73
ISSN:	1469-4379 1360-6743
DOI:	10.1017/s1360674321000022
Popis:	Which normally transitive verbs can omit their objects in English (I ate), and why? This article explores three factors suggested to facilitate object omission: (i) how strongly a verb selects its object (Resnik 1993); (ii) a verb's frequency (Goldberg 2005); (iii) the extent to which the verb is associated with a routine – a recognized, conventional series of actions within a community (Lambrecht & Lemoine 2005; Ruppenhofer & Michaelis 2010; Levin & Rapaport Hovav 2014; Martí 2010, 2015). To operationalize (iii), this article compares the writings of different communities to offer corpus and experimental evidence that verbs omit their objects more readily in the communities in which they are more strongly associated with a routine. More broadly, the article explores how the meaning and syntactic potential of verbs are shaped by the practices of the people who use them.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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