"That" placeholder in Komnzo

Speakers of Komnzo have a number of conventionalised devices for situations of
disfluency. In addition to silent pauses, there are hesitative and placeholder fillers.
This contribution places a focus on the placeholder bäne which is a pronoun, or
pro-form in the language. The chapter consists of a description of the form, distribution,
functions, functional extensions, frequency, and multimodality of bäne. It therefore
contributes to the emerging typology of placeholders.