Filler Verbs in Modern Georgian
Cross-linguistically filler nouns and verbs are used when speakers cannot recall a lexical item; when they cannot choose the right lexical item because of lacking education, knowledge or infor-mation; or when they intentionally avoid verbalization for different pragmatic reasons. Among filler nouns...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.565.8041 2023-05-15T15:54:36+02:00 Filler Verbs in Modern Georgian Nino Amiridze The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.565.8041 http://www.hum.uu.nl/medewerkers/n.amiridze/papers/fillers/Amiridze.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.565.8041 http://www.hum.uu.nl/medewerkers/n.amiridze/papers/fillers/Amiridze.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.hum.uu.nl/medewerkers/n.amiridze/papers/fillers/Amiridze.pdf text ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T12:15:30Z Cross-linguistically filler nouns and verbs are used when speakers cannot recall a lexical item; when they cannot choose the right lexical item because of lacking education, knowledge or infor-mation; or when they intentionally avoid verbalization for different pragmatic reasons. Among filler nouns are the English thingummy, German Dingsbums and Italian coso/cosa (derived from the noun cosa ”thing”). There are filler verbs of various origin across languages that serve as placehold-ers for synthetic verb forms in discourse. For instance, [Sko77] and [Dun99] report Chukchi filler verbs based on the interrogative/indefinite stem req- meaning “do what”, “do something”. Some languages use an inflected dummy stem derived from the lexical item thing (Italian cosare (1), Eng-lish thingo (2) from [Pow91]), others make use of a grammaticalized root originally meaning “do” (Japanese are suru (3) from [Kit99, pp. 390-391]) or Georgian imaskna, the focus of this paper (see (4a) from [Zos80, p. 192], (4b), (5) as well a [Ami04]). According to [FHJ96], formal means used in repair strategies are highly dependent on the mor-phological characteristics of the language. For instance, to construct verbal fillers, analytical lan-guages would use a dummy noun compounded with an auxiliary while synthetic languages would use an affixed dummy root. Some languages employing both affixation and analytical formation Text Chukchi Unknown |
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Cross-linguistically filler nouns and verbs are used when speakers cannot recall a lexical item; when they cannot choose the right lexical item because of lacking education, knowledge or infor-mation; or when they intentionally avoid verbalization for different pragmatic reasons. Among filler nouns are the English thingummy, German Dingsbums and Italian coso/cosa (derived from the noun cosa ”thing”). There are filler verbs of various origin across languages that serve as placehold-ers for synthetic verb forms in discourse. For instance, [Sko77] and [Dun99] report Chukchi filler verbs based on the interrogative/indefinite stem req- meaning “do what”, “do something”. Some languages use an inflected dummy stem derived from the lexical item thing (Italian cosare (1), Eng-lish thingo (2) from [Pow91]), others make use of a grammaticalized root originally meaning “do” (Japanese are suru (3) from [Kit99, pp. 390-391]) or Georgian imaskna, the focus of this paper (see (4a) from [Zos80, p. 192], (4b), (5) as well a [Ami04]). According to [FHJ96], formal means used in repair strategies are highly dependent on the mor-phological characteristics of the language. For instance, to construct verbal fillers, analytical lan-guages would use a dummy noun compounded with an auxiliary while synthetic languages would use an affixed dummy root. Some languages employing both affixation and analytical formation |
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