Placeholders in Negidal (Pakendorf)
In this talk I will give a brief overview of the function of the placeholder uŋun in Negidal, a Northern Tungusic language spoken in the Lower Amur region of Russia. This element can stand in for both verbs and nouns, with the same inflectional possibilities as the item it replaces, viz. tense, aspect, mood and subject agreement in its verbal use and case and possession in its nominal use. Time permitting, I will compare this with corresponding items in Negidal’s sister languages Evenki and Even.
Bora hesitation pronouns (Seifart)
In this strictly work-in-progress talk, I will present initial analyses of the form and function of hesitation-uses of Bora demonstrative pronouns compared to referential uses of these pronouns.
Filled pauses cross-linguistically (Stave, Seifart)
In this strictly work-in-progress talk, we will present a first, rough cross-linguistic comparison of forms and frequencies of filled pauses across ca. 20 languages from the DoReCo collection.
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