Direct and Indirect Speech

Florian Coulmas

Walter de Gruyter, 1986 - Computers - 370 pages

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Contents

• A functional study: 29
• Some remarks on direct and indirect speech in Slave Northern: 47
• Reported speech in Yoruba: 77
• Reported speech in Swahili: 99
• Speech reporting in the Caucasus: 121
• Reported speech in some languages of Nepal: 145
• Direct and indirect speech in Japanese: 161
• The particle o and contentoriented indirect speech in Japanese: 178
• Some semantic aspects of indirect speech in Hungarian: 201
• Reported speech in Danish: 219
• Reported speech in French and Hungarian: 255
• Introducing constructed dialogue in Greek and American conver: 311
• Evidence: 333
• Index of subjects: 361

Bibliographic information

• Title: Direct and Indirect Speech; Volume 31 of Trends in linguistics, Studies and monographs; Volume 31 of Trends in linguistics: State-of-the-art report; Volume 31 of Trends in linguistics: Studies and monographs, ISSN 1861-4302
• Editor: Florian Coulmas
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter, 1986
• ISBN: 3110105993, 9783110105995
• Length: 370 pages
• Subjects: Computers / Artificial Intelligence / Natural Language Processing; Language Arts & Disciplines / Grammar & Punctuation; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General