Quotatives

[Robert G. Lee]

I sent this to Dan already:

Role Shift in ASL: A Syntactic Look at Direct  Speech
by Lee, R.G., C. Neidle, D. MacLaughlin, B. Bahan, and J.  Kegl (1997)

In C. Neidle, D. MacLaughlin, and R.G. Lee (eds), Syntactic  Structure
and Discourse Function: An Examination of Two  Constructions in
American Sign Language.  American Sign Language Linguistic Research
Project Report No.  4, Boston University, Boston, MA. May 1997, 24-45.

It is available in PDF at:

http://www.bu.edu/asllrp/


Click the Publications link

Best

Robert G. Lee

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull
his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you
understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send
signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that
there is no cat.
                    Albert Einstein