Clitic vs Null - What's the difference?
clitic | null |
(linguistics) A morpheme that functions like a word, but never appears as an independent word, instead being always attached to a following or preceding word (or, in some cases, within a surrounding word).
* 1997 , Raffaella Zanuttini, Negation and Clausal Structure , Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax,
* 2006 , Olga Mišeska Tomi?, Balkan Sprachbund Morpho-Syntactic Features ,
* 2009 , Philippe Prévost, The Acquisition of French , Language Acquisition and Language Disorders: 51,
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between clitic and null
is that clitic is (linguistics) a morpheme that functions like a word, but never appears as an independent word, instead being always attached to a following or preceding word (or, in some cases, within a surrounding word) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.clitic
English
(wikipedia clitic)Noun
(en noun)- In English, the possessive ''-'s'' is a clitic .
page 29,
- In fact, even within the northern Italian dialects, subject clitics do not constitute a syntactically uniform class, as has been convincingly argued in Poletto's work.
page 242,
- In Macedonian, clitic'-doubling is a fully-fledged phenomenon. The Macedonian Dat and Acc pronominal '''clitics''', which originate in agreement phrases and move to preverbal position,10 where they cluster with other clausal ' clitics , are on their way to becoming mere case markers, which formally distinguish direct and indirect objects from subjects.
page 196,
- Here, we will see that they also have problems with overt pronouns, especially object clitics , whose emergence is more delayed than in typically developing children.
Hyponyms
* (linguistics) enclitic, endoclitic, mesoclitic, procliticCoordinate terms
* affixnull
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.