4. 9. 3 Zero expression Zero expression does not mean as what is found in morphology (i.e. the plural noun like ; deer – deer, or the verb tense like ; put – put, but the absence of an object signals which are unnecessarily occur. Some examples are shown below They are eating (i.e. eating apples) They have a parrot called Montague (i.e. which is called Montague). She’s gone away. (i.e. away from here/there). It is worth noticing here that the absent syntactic expression, contextually determined element. In other words, that some of them should be related to context like ; Can I join (i.e. join the club/society). All the absent expressions are stored in the speaker’s mind. But according to
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