Functions of placeholder words in Evenki
Placeholders are used to fill in the pause when the speaker has forgotten the exact word. They have the syntactic properties of the word the speaker cannot recall (the target word). Studying placeholders is thus important for understanding how discourse works. However, the area has been much underst...
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ftzenodo:oai:zenodo.org:7053369 2024-09-15T18:05:19+00:00 Functions of placeholder words in Evenki Elena Klyachko 2022-09-06 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7053369 eng eng Language Science Press isbn:978-3-96110-395-9 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7025328 https://zenodo.org/communities/langscipress https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7053368 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7053369 oai:zenodo.org:7053369 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart 2022 ftzenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.705336910.5281/zenodo.702532810.5281/zenodo.7053368 2024-07-25T12:50:40Z Placeholders are used to fill in the pause when the speaker has forgotten the exact word. They have the syntactic properties of the word the speaker cannot recall (the target word). Studying placeholders is thus important for understanding how discourse works. However, the area has been much understudied, especially for low-resource languages, due to the lack of oral corpora. This paper fills in this lacuna for the Evenki language. It describes the functions of placeholders and their grammatical properties, drawing on data from oral corpora and elicitation. More specifically, it looks into the transfer of grammatical features from the target word to the placeholder. Dialectal distribution of placeholders and their correlates in other Tungusic languages are also discussed. Book Part Evenki Tungusic languages Zenodo |
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Placeholders are used to fill in the pause when the speaker has forgotten the exact word. They have the syntactic properties of the word the speaker cannot recall (the target word). Studying placeholders is thus important for understanding how discourse works. However, the area has been much understudied, especially for low-resource languages, due to the lack of oral corpora. This paper fills in this lacuna for the Evenki language. It describes the functions of placeholders and their grammatical properties, drawing on data from oral corpora and elicitation. More specifically, it looks into the transfer of grammatical features from the target word to the placeholder. Dialectal distribution of placeholders and their correlates in other Tungusic languages are also discussed. |
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