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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZA">We are pleased to announce the publication of a collective volume on “Fillers – Hesitatives and placeholders”, edited by Brigitte Pakendorf & Françoise Rose and published by Language Science Press in its series “Research
on Comparative Grammar” (<a href="https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/484">https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/484</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZA">Fillers are non-silent linguistic devices used in disfluencies to gain time while searching for words; they are also frequently used intentionally to avoid words for various pragmatic reasons. Two types can be distinguished:
placeholders, which are referential and morphosyntactically integrated, and hesitatives, which are neither integrated nor referential.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZA">The collective volume comprises 10 in-depth descriptions of conventionalized fillers in languages from Eurasia, Papunesia, Australia, and the Americas, plus a comparison of fillers and general extenders in Tungusic languages;
it starts off with a discussion of issues emerging from the previous literature and a new typology of fillers.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZA">The entire volume or individual chapters can be downloaded free of charge from the publisher’s website.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Brigitte PAKENDORF (she/elle/sie/</span><span lang="RU" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">она</span><span lang="DE" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">)</span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Directrice de recherche / Senior scientist</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dynamique Du Langage<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://www.ddl.cnrs.fr/pakendorf"><span style="color:blue">http://www.ddl.cnrs.fr/pakendorf</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">CNRS & Université Lumière Lyon 2</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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