The present volume unites 15 papers on reported discourse from a wide genetic and geographical variety of languages. Besides the treatment of traditional problems of reported discourse like the classification of its intermediate categories, the book reflects in particular how its grammatical, semantic, and pragmatic properties have repercussions in other linguistic domains like tense-aspect-modality, evidentiality, reference tracking and pronominal categories, and the grammaticalization history of quotative constructions. Almost all papers present a major shift away from analyzing reported discourse with the help of abstract transformational principles toward embedding it in functional and pragmatic aspects of language. Another central methodological approach pervading this collection consists in the discourse-oriented examination of reported discourse based on large corpora of spoken or written texts which is increasingly replacing analyses of constructed de-contextualized utterances prevalent in many earlier treatments. The book closes with a comprehensive bibliography on reported discourse of about 1.000 entries.

Table of Contents

Preface Tom Güldemann and Manfred von Roncador vii Abbreviations x Part I. Categories of reported discourse and their use 1. Speech and thought representation in the Kartvelian (South Caucasian) languages Winfred Boeder 3 2. Self-quotation in German: Reporting on past decisions Andrea Golato 49 3. Direct and indirect speech in Cerma narrative Ivan-Margaret Lowe and Ruth Hurlimann 71 4. Direct and indirect discourse in Tamil Sanford B. Steever 91 5. The acceptance of ‘free indirect discourse’: A change of the representation of thought in Japanese Yasushi Suzuki 109 6. Direct, indirect and other discourse in Bengali newspapers Wim van der Wurff 121 Part II. Tense- aspect and evidentiality 7. Evidentiality and reported speech in Romance languages Gerda Hassler 143 8. Discourse perspectives on tense choice in spoken-English reporting discourse Tomoko I. Sakita 173 Part III. Logophoricity 9. The logophoric hierarchy and variation in Dogon Chris Culy 201 10. Logophoric marking in East Asian languages Yan Huang 211 Part IV. Form and history of quotative constructions 11. The grammaticalization of ‘say’ and ‘do’: An areal phenomenon in East Africa David Cohen, Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle and Martine Vanhove 227 12. When ‘say’ is not say: The functional versatility of the Bantu quotative marker ti with special reference to Shona Tom Güldemann 253 13. Reported speech in Egyptian: Forms, types and history Frank Kammerzell and Carsten Peust 289 14. ‘Report’ constructions in Kambera (Austronesian) Marian Klamer 323 15. All the same? The emergence of complementizers in Bislama Miriam Meyerhoff 341 Part V. A comprehensive bibliography of reported discourse 16. A comprehensive bibliography of reported discourse Tom Güldemann, Manfred von Roncador and Wim van der Wurff 363 Language index 417 Name index 419