Null instantiation

<h2 id="definite-null-instantiation">Definite null instantiation</h2>
<p>Definite null instantiation is the absence of a frame element that is recoverable from the context.  It is similar to a zero <a href="/facts/Anaphor/gm1WHVBF">anaphor</a>.
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<h2 id="indefinite-null-instantiation">Indefinite null instantiation</h2>
<p>Indefinite null instantiation is the absence of the object of a potentially <a href="/facts/Transitive_verb/3TtAs9FH">transitive verb</a> such as <i>eat</i> or <i>drink.</i>
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<h2 id="constructional-null-instantiation">Constructional null instantiation</h2>
<p>Constructional null instantiation is the absence of a frame element due to a syntactic construction, e.g. the optional omission of agents in passive sentences.
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Frame_semantics_(linguistics)/fclM8rvz">Frame semantics</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Anaphora_(linguistics)/gm1WHVBF">Anaphora</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Ellipsis_(linguistics)/xDJyjytB">Ellipsis</a></li></ul>

<ol><li><a href="/facts/Charles_J._Fillmore/TeCE62aP">Fillmore, Charles J.</a>; <a href="/facts/Christopher_R._Johnson/Hunyp9hQ">Christopher R. Johnson</a>; and Miriam R. L. Petruck (2003)  Background to FrameNet.  'International Journal of Lexicography' 16(3):235-250.</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Charles_J._Fillmore/TeCE62aP">Fillmore, Charles J.</a> (1986) Pragmatically Controlled Zero Anaphora. 'Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society'.</li>
<li>Ruppenhofer, Josef and Laura A. Michaelis (2014) Frames and the Interpretation of Omitted Arguments in English. In S. Katz Bourns and L. Myers, (eds.), <i>Linguistic Perspectives on Structure and Context: Studies in Honor of Knud Lambrecht</i>. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 57-86.</li></ol>
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<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Ruppenhofer and Michaelis 2014 <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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