title: Transmitting Information without an Individual Material Carrier
abstract: The present article deals with the semantic and functional characteristics of a zero sign, which represents a significant and apprehended absence of some symbol in the context, where it was or should be under the mandatory conditions for the existence of this environment. Its characteristics have not been properly described in scientific works, therefore the study, based on the methods of semantic, distributive and communicative analysis, survey and comparison of the features of different units,
journal: Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta Serija 2 Jazykoznanije