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Null objects and their interpretations

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Null objects and non-thematic subjects

Journal of Linguistics, 1992
This article analyses middle constructions in English, accounting for their key syntactic and semantic properties. The analysis rests on the observation that there are certain similarities between middle,toughand recipe-context null-object constructions, such as in (1a–c). (1) (a) This bread cuts—easily. (b) This bread is easy to cut—.
Diane Massam
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Quantificational Null Objects and Argument Ellipsis

Linguistic Inquiry, 2008
This article provides a new argument for the analysis of null arguments in terms of ellipsis by considering null objects that behave like quantifiers. It is shown that the presence of quantificational null objects and their scopal property are difficult to accommodate under the traditional view of null arguments as pronouns but are best accounted for ...
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ASYMMETRY OF NULL SUBJECTS AND NULL OBJECTS IN CHINESE SPEAKERS' L2 ENGLISH

Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1997
One of the differences between Chinese and English is that the former allows both null subjects in finite sentences and null objects, but the latter allows neither. This cross-linguistic variation is believed to be related to the underspecification of I and topic drop in Chinese but not in English. This paper reports on an empirical study investigating
Boping Yuan
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Object recognition and laterality: Null effects

Neuropsychologia, 1991
In two experiments, normal subjects named briefly presented pictures of objects that were shown either to the left or to the right of fixation. The net effects attributable to hemifield were negligible: naming RTs were 12 msec lower for pictures shown in the left visual field but error rates were slightly lower, by 0.8%, for pictures shown in the right
I, Biederman, E E, Cooper
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Null objects in English recipes

Language Variation and Change, 1996
ABSTRACTRecipes exhibit a phenomenon that does not exist in other varieties that are commonaly studied (e.g., narrative, sentences in isolation, conversational discourse, etc.)—namely, zero anaphors as direct objects, as inBeat[ø]until stiff. The two goals of this article are to examine this phenomenon in both contemporary recipes and across time and ...
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Null objects in Brazilian Portuguese

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 1990
An analysis of null object constructions in colloquial Brazilian Portuguese is brought to bear on the theory of empty categories. Focusing on their properties in adjunct clauses, it is argued that at least some null objects must be analyzed as pro's, even though they are not morphologically identified.
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Null Object Pattern

2018
Wikipedia says, “In object-oriented computer programming, a null object is an object with no referenced value or with defined neutral (null) behavior. The null object design pattern describes the uses of such objects and their behavior (or lack thereof).
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