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Null Object Pattern

2017
The next stop on your voyage through the Design Patterns galaxy takes you to the Null Object design pattern, the first of two design patterns you'll encounter that are not registered in the GoF catalog. You will find this design pattern useful in reducing conditional logic.
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Null Direct Objects in Spanish Conversation

Hispanic Research Journal, 2015
The occurrence of Spanish ambitransitive verbs without an explicit object has been accounted for in previous studies by appealing to the semantic and pragmatic properties of the inferable referent of the empty object structural slot. In this line, null objects have been characterized within the category of low transitive objects because they display a ...
Ivo Sanchez-Ayala, Javier Rivas
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Null subject and null object in child Chinese.

2009
This study is focused on the null subject and object phenomenon in Chinese child language. Its goal is to investigate null subject and object use in the Chinese spontaneous speech in the light of the debates in the previous literature. The first two chapters elaborate on the adult grammar of the empty categories and the debates about this phenomenon in
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Accusative clitics, null objects, and the object agreement cycle

2021
Conservative varieties of Modern Spanish exhibit clitic left-dislocation and accusative clitic doubling of pronominal objects. Clitic left-dislocation occurs in Old Spanish but accusative clitic doubling first appears in the fifteenth century, becoming regular in the sixteenth century.
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Null objects, null nominal anaphora and antilogophoricity

Probus
Abstract This paper discusses null objects (NOs) in Ibero-Romance. European Portuguese (EP) has both definite and indefinte NOs, but Castillian Spanish (CSpanish) only allows NOs when the antecedent is a bare plural nominal or a mass noun.
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On null objects in Egyptian Arabic

Brill’s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics, 2020
Abstract This paper provides a descriptive account and a syntactic analysis of the grammatical distribution and properties of null objects (NOs) in Egyptian Arabic. In particular, it is shown that NOs cannot be analyzed as instances of null pro or as variables bound by a null topic operator.
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Null Objects in Old French

2012
Despite claims to the contrary, it has been shown that a number of modern Romance varieties—including European and Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and French—allow omission of the object of a verb, even when the object has a definite referent. Taking as a point of departure Arteaga’s (On null objects in Old French.
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Null Direct Objects in Spanish

2006
The phenomenon of null objects is, as Schwenter (2005) shows, variable across varieties of Spanish, depending on the factors of animacy and specificity. Null objects are found to varying degrees in Spanish varieties from Mexico, the Andes, Paraguay, and even in Brazilian Portuguese.
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Null Objects in Functional Projections

1996
Virtually all recent studies of null pronouns follow Rizzi (1986) in assuming that null pronouns must meet a licensing condition and an identification condition. The majority of investigations of these two conditions have focused on null Subjects, for which elements of INFL are generally implicated in both licensing and identification.
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Generic and indefinite null objects

2017
My thesis is concerned with the syntax and related syntactico-semantic properties of two types of non-overt internal arguments: generic null objects (GNO), as in His movies always shock___ , and indefinite null objects (INO), as in He reads___ / He is reading___ .
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