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Null objects/full pronouns and topicality in Brazilian Portuguese
Fórum Linguístico, 2019 It is a well-known fact that Brazilian Portuguese (BP) allows null objects whose antecedents are inanimate. However, there are certain sentences that seem to defy this generalization.
Sonia Maria Lazzarini Cyrino
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IsoglossThe following paper considers the potential for optionality of anaphoric null objects in two early Romance languages: Old French and Old Tuscan. In both languages, anaphoric objects can be omitted in different syntactic contexts (e.g., in coordination ...
Prudence de Pontbriand
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The Null Instantiation of Objects as a Polysemy-Trigger. A Study on the English verb See [PDF]
Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2008 This paper argues that the phenomenon of the null instantiation of objects, i.e. the property of some transitive verbs to omit their direct complements, can be viewed as a polysemy-trigger.
Maria Ivana Lorenzetti
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Generic Null Objects in Spanish
Revista Española de LingüísticaThis paper explores the grammatical constraints operating on Spanish generic null objects (e.g. Esta película sorprende Ø ‘this film surprises’), as well as their syntactic representation.
Carlos Martínez-García
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Arborescences, 2021 Children across a variety of languages omit direct objects at higher rates that adults. It has been argued that these omissions arise from children’s performance or pragmatic limitations. The null object approach holds that children start by allowing a broader set of mechanisms for the recoverability of null objects than those possible in the adult ...
Ana T. Pérez-Leroux +1 more
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Null objects and accusative clitics in Romanian
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2009 Starting from the identification of the obligatory contexts in which the Accusative clitic occurs in Romanian we offer a unifying analysis of its role across all the identified contexts.
Martine Coene, Larisa Avram
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Null objects in English and Spanish recipes [PDF]
, 2022 28 p. -- Bibliogr.: p. 26-28Even though English and Spanish are languages which do not usually allow null objects (NOs) in the general case, this phenomenon is possible in some special registers of the languages.
Rodríguez Durán, Ane
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Linguistik Online, 2011 In an attempt to investigate the vulnerability of the syntax-pragmatics interface and to shed light on the acquisition of subjects and objects in two different languages, namely the [+null subject] language Spanish and the [-null subject] language French,
Nicola Work
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Trapping of null geodesics in slowly rotating spacetimes
European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 2020 Extremely compact objects containing a region of trapped null geodesics could be of astrophysical relevance due to trapping of neutrinos with consequent impact on cooling processes or trapping of gravitational waves.
Jaroslav Vrba +3 more
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Junction conditions in Unimodular gravity
上海师范大学学报. 自然科学版, 2023 For a non-null hypersurface separating the spacetime into two regions, we derive the junction conditions that the metric must be satisfied in Unimodular gravity by requiring the metric is a valid distributional solution to the field equations, which can ...
YANG Ruixin, XIE Fei, LIU Daojun
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