Detailed Description

Across cultures, discourse reporting is a central feature of narrative practices. Across languages, it constitutes a special domain in which a number of characteristic grammatical phenomena can be observed, such as logophoricity and other special uses of pronouns (Hagège 1974, Nikitina 2012a,b), different types of deictic shift (Aikhenvald 2008, Evans 2013), quotative markers (Güldemann 2008), self-quotation markers (Michael 2014), reported subject markers, unusual patterns of code-switching, and many others (see Nikitina and Spronck 2019 for a recent overview).

References

Aikhenvald, A. Y. 2008. Semi-direct speech: Manambu and beyond. Language Sciences, 30: 383-422.

Evans, N. 2013. Some problems in the typology of quotation: a canonical approach. In D. Brown, M. Chumakina, & G. G. Corbett (eds.), Canonical Morphology and Syntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 66-98.

Güldemann, T. 2008. Quotative Indexes in African Languages: A synchronic and diachronic survey. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Hagège, C. 1974. Les pronoms logophoriques. Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris 69: 287-310.

Michael, L. 2014. Nanti self-quotation: Implications for the pragmatics of reported speech and evidentiality. In J. Nuckolls & L. Michael (eds.), Evidentiality in Interaction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 155-191.

Nikitina, T. 2012a. Personal deixis and reported discourse: Towards a typology of person alignment. Linguistic Typology 16(2): 233-263.

Nikitina, T. 2012b. Logophoric Discourse and First Person Reporting in Wan (West Africa). Anthropological Linguistics 54(3): 280-301.

Spronck, S. & T. Nikitina. 2019. Reported speech forms a dedicated syntactic domain: Typological arguments and observations. Linguistic Typology 23(1).