Unaccusative vs Null - What's the difference?
unaccusative | null |
(linguistics, of a verb) Intransitive and having an experiencer as its subject, that is, the (syntactic) subject is not a (semantic) agent.
(linguistics) An unaccusative verb.
* 1998 , Eloise Jelinek, Voice and Transitivity as Functional Projections in Yaqui , in Miriam Butt and Wilhelm Geuder, eds., “The Projection of Arguments”
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 unaccusative and null
is that unaccusative is (linguistics) an unaccusative verb while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective unaccusative
is (linguistics|of a verb) intransitive and having an experiencer as its subject, that is, the (syntactic) subject is not a (semantic) agent.unaccusative
English
(Unaccusative verb)Adjective
(-)Antonyms
* unergative * transitiveHyponyms
* intransitiveNoun
(en noun)- We have seen that Unergatives and Unaccusatives' differ in 1) permitting the derivation of an Impersonal Passive, and 2) in licensing purpose clauses, since Unergatives have active subjects, and ' Unaccusatives do not.
Antonyms
* unergativeReferences
*“unaccusative verb” in the Lexicon of Linguistics(Utrecht institute of Linguistics)
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.