Complementizer vs Null - What's the difference?
complementizer | null |
(linguistics) a form of subordinate conjunction
* "That" is a complementizer in the sentence "Mary believes that it is raining".
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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 complementizer and null
is that complementizer is (linguistics) a form of subordinate conjunction while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.complementizer
English
Alternative forms
* complementiserNoun
(wikipedia complementizer) (en noun)- However, what is of particular interest to us here is
the fact that the presence of the Complementiser' ''whether'' in (37) (b) above
excludes the possibility of having an inverted Auxiliary in pre-subject posi-
tion, as we see from the ungrammaticality of (38) below:
(38) *John wondered ''whether would he get a degree''
Why should this be? The answer we propose here is that this is because both
'''Complementisers''' and inverted Auxiliaries occupy the pre-subject C position:
hence, when (as in (38) above) the C position is already filled by the '''Comple-
mentiser ''whether , inversion of the Auxiliary is not possible, on the assumption
that once a given position is filled by one constituent, it cannot be filled by
another (i.e. we can only have one constituent occupying any given position).
null
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.