The Frequency of Indefinite Object Omission Among Prototypical Verbs and Their SynonymsPogorevc, Matija (Avtor) Lipovšek, Frančiška (Mentor) indefinite object omissionverb prototypicalitycorpus analysisThe present thesis studies the relation between the prototypicality of transitive verbs and the frequency of indefinite object omission. Since any transitive verb can theoretically omit its object given the right context, the study includes both verbs with manner and result components. Verbs are grouped into semantic sets of synonyms and arranged in terms of frequency in the enTenTen 2021 corpus. The study finds no meaningful correlation between a verb’s prototypicality and the rate of object omission. Instead, a mixture of factors seems to allow for or motivate object omission, including habituality, the unimportance of the object’s exact identity or its high level of inferability and semantic properties of the verb; these factors do not seem to correlate with the verb’s prototypicality. Object recoverability of certain prototypical members of their respective semantic sets is either too low or the contexts wherein these verbs are used that could raise the inferability of their objects are very rare.20252025-04-25 07:45:44Magistrsko delo/naloga168801sl