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Automated refactoring to the Null Object design pattern

Information and Software Technology, 2015
We eliminate null-checking conditionals via refactoring to the Null Object pattern.We introduce an algorithm for automated discovery of refactoring opportunities.We specify refactoring preconditions and the source code transformation procedure.Quality assessment and execution efficiency results support our method.
Maria Anna G. Gaitani, Vassilis Zafeiris, N. A. Diamantidis, Emmanouel A. Giakoumakis   +3 more
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Comparing null subjects and null objects

Abstract This paper presents a corpus-based analysis of the antecedent preferences of anaphoric null objects in European Portuguese. It suggests that the sentential domain, the syntactic function, and the animacy of the antecedent determine the selection of the referent of null objects, similar to what has been ...
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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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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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The Complexity of Null Objects

2005
Il volume raccoglie un insieme di studi sulla semantica combinatoria degli elementi lessicali. Il problema della combinabilità dei significati, distinto dalla composizionalità ma non ad essa irrelato, è affrontato nelle sue dimensioni teoriche ed applicative, con riferimento primario alla lingua inglese ma con estensioni contrastive sia all'italiano
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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—.
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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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Cross-linguistic influence in simultaneous and early sequential acquisition: Null subjects and null objects in Polish-German bilingualism

International Journal of Bilingualism, 2021
Aldona Sopata, Kamil Długosz
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Null object licensing in Guaraní

Abstract This article discusses object (and subject) omission in three Guaraní languages, providing evidence for agreement–based direct object drop and genuine pro in internal argument position. The empirical facts show that 1p and 2p object omission behaves very similarly to classical, even consistent, and agreement ...
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