The article provides a corpus-based analysis of three placeholder items, kim, kimneː- and kańaː-, in the North-Siberian Turkic language Dolgan. After a brief discussion of the theoretical state of art in the research on placeholder items (Section 2), the named Dolgan placeholder items are investigated regarding their etymological origin (Section 3) as well as their morphosyntactic properties and their functional domains (Section 4). Finally, the outcomes of this analysis are evaluated against the described theoretical background (Section 5).