[Lingtyp] new open access publication: Fillers: Hesitatives and placeholders

[PAKENDORF Brigitte]

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” (https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/484).

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.

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.

The entire volume or individual chapters can be downloaded free of charge from the publisher’s website.


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Brigitte PAKENDORF (she/elle/sie/она)
Directrice de recherche / Senior scientist
Dynamique Du Langage
http://www.ddl.cnrs.fr/pakendorf
CNRS & Université Lumière Lyon 2
14 avenue Berthelot
69007 Lyon
FRANCE

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