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1 online resource (224 pages) |
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Typological studies in language ; v. 93 |
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Typological studies in language ; v. 93.
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| Contents |
Parameters for typological variation of placeholders / Vera I. Podlesskaya -- A cross-linguistic exploration of demonstratives in interaction: with particular reference to the context of word-formulation trouble / Makoto Hayashi & Kyung-Eun Yoon -- Placeholder verbs in Modern Georgian / Nino Amiridze -- From interrogatives to placeholders in Udi and Agul spontaneous narratives / Dmitry Ganenkov, Yury Lander & Timur Maisak -- Fillers and placeholders in Nahavaq / Laura Dimock -- The interactional profile of a placeholder: the Estonian demonstrative see / Leelo Keevallik -- Fillers and their relevance in describing Sliammon Salish / Honoré Watanabe -- Pauses, fillers, placeholders and formulaicity in Alzheimer's discourse: gluing relationships as impairment increases / Boyd H. Davis & Margaret Maclagan |
| Summary |
Fillers are items that speakers insert in spontaneous speech as a repair strategy. Types of fillers include hesitation markers and placeholders. Both are used to fill pauses that arise during planning problems or in lexical retrieval failure. However, while hesitation markers may not bear any resemblance to lexical items they replace, placeholders typically share some morphosyntactic properties with the target form. Additionally, fillers can function as a pragmatic tool, in order to replace lexical items that the speaker wants to avoid mentioning for some reason. The present volume is the firs |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Description based on print version record |
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Language and languages -- Word formation
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Word formation.
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Typology (Linguistics)
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Discourse analysis
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Morphology.
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Discourse analysis
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Word formation
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Typology (Linguistics)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Amiridze, Nino, 1971- editor.
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Davis, Boyd H., editor
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Maclagan, Margaret, editor
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| LC no. |
2010028103 |
| ISBN |
9789027287762 |
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9027287767 |
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9781282895744 |
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1282895745 |
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9786612895746 |
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6612895748 |
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