<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Raffaele,</div><div><br></div><div>Ojibwe has a set of placeholder "pausal" pronouns which inflect for animacy and number. See Valentine 2001 p.484. These occur very frequently in the Oji-Cree dialect I work with. I believe Cree has a set as well which I've heard called "hesitation pronouns".</div><div><br></div><div>
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</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 10:45 AM Joseph Farquharson <<a href="mailto:jtfarquharson@gmail.com">jtfarquharson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Dear <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Raffaele:</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">In Jamaican, an English-related Creole spoken mainly in the Caribbean island-state of Jamaica,</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">we have several fillers which we can divide into those meant to fill in for forgotten information and </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">those meant to avoid explicit mention of something/someone.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">FOR ITEMS ONE CANNOT RECALL</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><i>wa/we im niem agen</i> [what 3SG name again] - used for + ANIMATE and - ANIMATE referents</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><i>wa/we i niem agen</i> [what 3SG.NEUT name again] - used for - ANIMATE referents </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><i>wa dem kaal i</i> [what 3PL call 3SG.NEUT] - used for - ANIMATE referents </span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I have heard the following used by someone searching for the name of a descriptive word to apply to a person </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">while narrating something that happened: <i>wa yu uda kaal i agen</i> [what 2SG MOD call 3SG.NEUT again] </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default">FOR ITEMS ONE PREFERS/WANTS TO <b>NOT </b>MENTION </div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><i>di ting (de)</i> [DET thing (DISTAL)]</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><i>da ting de</i> [DEM thing DISTAL] </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 11 Mar 2023 at 07:34, Eline Visser <<a href="mailto:eelienu@pm.me" target="_blank">eelienu@pm.me</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Raffaele,<br>
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Papuan Kalamang (kgv) uses neba 'what' and don 'thing' as placeholders: <br>
<a href="https://paperhive.org/documents/items/e7TDfjRZRHtB?a=p:455" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://paperhive.org/documents/items/e7TDfjRZRHtB?a=p:455</a>. There's more and newer information in the abstract in the attachment.<br>
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Kalamang Austronesian neighbour Uruangnirin (urn) has suai 'what' and suai da ka 'what REL DIST'. I don't have a published source for you yet, but let me know if you want to know more.<br>
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