Nino Amiridze

List of John Benjamins publications in which Nino Amiridze is involved.

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Fillers, Pauses and Placeholders

Edited by Nino Amiridze, Boyd Davis and Margaret Maclagan

Fillers are items that speakers insert in spontaneous speech as a repair strategy. Types of fillers include hesitation markers and placeholders. Both are used to fill pauses that arise during planning problems or in lexical retrieval failure. However, while hesitation markers may not bear any… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 93] 2010. vii, 224 pp.

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Amiridze, Nino 2010 Placeholder verbs in Modern Georgian Fillers, Pauses and Placeholders, Amiridze, Nino, Boyd Davis and Margaret Maclagan (eds.), pp. 67–94 | Article

Many languages have filler nouns like English thingummy, or German Dingsbums and Dingens, known also as ‘oblitive’ nouns. They refer to a person or thing whose name the speaker has forgotten, does not know or does not wish to mention. Modern Georgian has developed filler verbs that substitute for… read more