Research Catalog

Title

Fillers, pauses and placeholders / edited by Nino Amiridze, Boyd H. Davis, Margaret Maclagan.

Publication

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2010.

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Additional Authors

• Amiridze, Nino, 1971-
• Davis, Boyd H.
• Maclagan, Margaret

Description

[vii], 224 p.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Typological studies in language ; v. 93

Uniform Title

Typological studies in language; v. 93.

Subject

• Language and languages > Word formation
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Word formation
• Typology (Linguistics)
• Discourse analysis

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Barbara A. Fox -- 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 Hayahsi & 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 increasing / Boyd H. Davis & Margaret Maclagan.

ISBN

• 9789027206749 (alk. paper)
• 9027206740 (alk. paper)
• 9789027287762 (eb : alk. paper)
• 9027287767 (eb : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010028103

OCLC

645790939

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library