<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Just a thought, but 'languages devoid of utterance complement clauses' is not the same as 'languages devoid of direct speech/reported speech’, although it is an interesting list and an interesting discussion! <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class="">Denys <br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 16. Jun 2022, at 11:02, Mark Donohue <<a href="mailto:mhdonohue@gmail.com" class="">mhdonohue@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><a href="https://wals.info/feature/128A#1/28/149" class="">https://wals.info/feature/128A#1/28/149</a><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cristofaro lists</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Awa Pit</div><div class="">Cahuilla</div><div class="">Emberá (Northern)</div><div class="">Evenki</div><div class="">Martuthunira</div><div class="">Nivkh</div><div class="">Resígaro</div><div class="">Squamish</div><div class="">Tamil</div><div class="">Thakali</div><div class="">Trumai</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Mark</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 16 Jun 2022 at 17:29, Jocelyn Aznar <<a href="mailto:contact@jocelynaznar.eu" class="">contact@jocelynaznar.eu</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi everyone,<br class="">
<br class="">
Working on reporting speech at the moment, and more precisly on direct<br class="">
speech, I was wondering whether it has been once reported that a speech<br class="">
community wouldn't practice reported speech or direct speech. I'd be<br class="">
also interested by any report or examples from corpus of direct speech<br class="">
that cannot be identified using morphological or syntactical clues.<br class="">
<br class="">
I know of course that indirect speech, or other forms of reported speech<br class="">
else than direct speech, are not so common, but has it been reported<br class="">
that a particular speech community wouldn't practice at all reported<br class="">
speech ? or have you read about a speech community which didn't produce<br class="">
direct speech?<br class="">
<br class="">
Having sent the email with the wrong address first, Daniel Ross had the<br class="">
opportunity to tell me about the word of Daniel Everett on Pirahã. I<br class="">
will take a look at Everett's decriptions and the documentary Grammar of<br class="">
Happiness where there should be an interested occurrence of direct speech.<br class="">
<br class="">
Best,<br class="">
Jocelyn Aznar,<br class="">
postdoc at ZAS,<br class="">
Berlin<br class="">
<br class="">
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