null object
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnullandobject
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null
adjective
uk/nʌl/us/nʌl/
having no ...
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object
noun
uk/ˈɒb.dʒɪkt/us/ˈɑːb.dʒɪkt/
a thing that you can see or touch but that is not usually a living animal, plant, ...
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(Definition ofnullandobjectfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofnull object
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In contrast, when thenullobjectis recovered via the extralinguistic environment, it does refer to a specific item.
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The most common nonclitic object type for all three groups was anullobject.
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This differs from topic-drop languages in which all transitive verbs can potentially appear with anullobject.
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Moreover, there is a trade-off between the end of the illicitnullobjectperiod and the productive usage of object clitics.
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However, whilenullobjectpronouns can always be substituted with overt pronouns, any attempt to do this here results in ungrammaticality.
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The fact remains that investigating the phenomenon ofnullobjectin spontaneous production is not an easy task, given that it can be quite frequent in the target language.
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When there is food on the table, this would be compatible with a transitive interpretation in which the food is taken to be anullobject.
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This position lower down the clause requires an antecedent for the identification of the null constant, the absence of which rules out thenullobjectoption.
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The coding system used in the present study defined activation conservatively, requiring an activated antecedent for anullobjectto occur in the immediate preceding clause.
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If an object is both initial and terminal, it is called a zero object ornullobject.
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Thenullobjectpattern is also supported in multiple value processing.
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By returning anullobject(i.e. an empty list) instead, there is no need to verify that the return value is in fact a list.
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If messages are sent to "nil" (thenullobjectpointer), they will be silently ignored or raise a generic exception, depending on compiler options.
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Subject pro-drop is locally identifiable by agreement morphology on the verb, but definite and indefinite null objects are not recoverable from clause level marking.
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Given the theoretical assumptions described earlier, this suggests that null objects are not instances of topic-drop.
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The period during which illicit null objects are found roughly corresponds to the first 20 months of acquisition.
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They both produced licit and illicit null objects throughout the recording sessions, although most object omission conformed to the target language.
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No tables are provided in consideration of the very small number of null objects.
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