[Lingtyp] Query: extended direct speech

[Hedvig Skirgård]

Thank you Denis for your question, this is intriguing indeed. These kinds
of queries that stretch into pragmatics and methodology of comparing
natural speech patterns interest me a great deal.

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Den tors 25 apr. 2019 kl 01:24 skrev Denis CREISSELS <
denis.creissels at univ-lyon2.fr>:

> Dear all,
>
>
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> By ‘extended direct speech’, I mean constructions involving a main verb
> which is not a verb of saying and a subordinate clause which does not refer
> to a speech act, but in which first person pronouns or indexes in the
> subordinate clause behave exactly in the same way as in direct speech, in
> the sense that they do not refer to the speaker, but to the subject of the
> matrix clause. This pattern is regularly (although optionally) found in
> Jóola Fóoñi (aka Diola-Fogny, an Atlantic language of Senegal), in the
> complementation of ‘know’ and other cognitive verbs.
>
>
>
> For example, in Jóola Fooñi, ‘The childi knows that hisi mother worked
> hard for himi’ is commonly expressed as literally ‘The child knows that
> my mother worked hard for me’. The obvious explanation is that such a
> sentence can be paraphrased as ‘The child knows (something he could express
> by saying:) my mother worked hard for me’. One must therefore consider the
> possibility that, cross-linguistically, similar sentences occur more or
> less sporadically in spontaneous speech with a special intonation, as a
> ‘figure of speech’ of the type termed ‘anacoluthon’ in classical rhetoric.
> What is special in the case of Jóola Fóoñi is that such a formulation is
> stylistically neutral, does not necessitate a special intonation, and is
> not deemed deviant by speakers.
>
>
>
> I would be interested to know whether a similar routinization of ‘extended
> direct speech’ has been observed in other languages.
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> Denis
>
>
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