[Lingtyp] Truc, machin and friends

[Françoise Rose]

Dear Simone,
As a follow up to the 2010 volume mentioned by Timur, Brigitte Pakendorf and myself organized a workshop on fillers and placeholders at ALT this winter. They were talks on a variety of languages (I am pasting below the program). The type of word you are referring to is called nominal placeholder in the literature. Their source can be a noun, but also a demonstrative or interrogative pronoun,… I am joining the call for abstracts, which includes some references.
Best,
Françoise


participant

title

Olga Kazakevich<https://iling-ran.ru/web/en/scholars/kazakevich>

Placeholders and other fillers in Northern Selkup

Elena Klyachko<https://gisly.net/>

Placeholders versus general extenders in Tungusic languages

Brigitte Pakendorf

Looking for the right word: a corpus-based investigation of placeholders in Negidal


Albert Ventayol-Boada

Unravelling the distinct functions of l'ə (льэ) in Kolyma Yukaghir

Dolgor Guntsetseg

Placeholders in Khalkha-Mongolian

Maïa Ponsonnet

Placeholders in a polysynthetic language (Dalabon, Gunwinyguan, non-Pama-Nyungan, Australia)


Yi-Yang Cheng

Prosodic (in)dependence and discourse functions: On the indeterminate morphosyntactic analysis of clause linkers in Matu'uwal, an Austronesian language of Taiwan

Marianne Mithun<http://mithun.faculty.linguistics.ucsb.edu/>

Placeholders on the Move

Françoise Rose<http://www.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Rose>

One more thing ‘thing’ can do in Tupi-Guarani languages : ‘thing’ as a filler in Teko


Alexander Rice<https://sites.google.com/view/arice>

Mashti: A multipurpose filler in Northern Pastaza Kichwa



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Objet : [Lingtyp] Truc, machin and friends

Dear friends and colleagues,
I am preparing a paper on that group of general-generic words that are used to designate entities whose name you do not know or do not remember, or whose name you do not want to remember or that, simply, have no name in a language.
I’m referring to “nouns” like French "truc" and "machin", Italian "coso", "arnese", "aggeggio", or, for people, Italian "tizio", "tipo", Spanish "tío", “fulano”, English "dude" etc. They form apparently a special word class and implement a particular way of designating.
The situation in the European languages I am familiar with seems very fragmented and discontinuous: some languages do have sets of dedicated or semidedicated words for that function, but most don’t, as far as I see.
Does any of you have examples from other languages and, if any, bibliographic references?
Thanks,
Raffaele

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