[Lingtyp] Language without direct speech or reported speech?

[Denys T.]

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! 

Best,
Denys 

> On 16. Jun 2022, at 11:02, Mark Donohue <mhdonohue at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> https://wals.info/feature/128A#1/28/149 <https://wals.info/feature/128A#1/28/149>
> 
> Cristofaro lists
> 
> Awa Pit
> Cahuilla
> Emberá (Northern)
> Evenki
> Martuthunira
> Nivkh
> Resígaro
> Squamish
> Tamil
> Thakali
> Trumai
> 
> -Mark
> 
> 
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2022 at 17:29, Jocelyn Aznar <contact at jocelynaznar.eu <mailto:contact at jocelynaznar.eu>> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Working on reporting speech at the moment, and more precisly on direct
> speech, I was wondering whether it has been once reported that a speech
> community wouldn't practice reported speech or direct speech. I'd be
> also interested by any report or examples from corpus of direct speech
> that cannot be identified using morphological or syntactical clues.
> 
> I know of course that indirect speech, or other forms of reported speech
> else than direct speech, are not so common, but has it been reported
> that a particular speech community wouldn't practice at all reported
> speech ? or have you read about a speech community which didn't produce
> direct speech?
> 
> Having sent the email with the wrong address first, Daniel Ross had the
> opportunity to tell me about the word of Daniel Everett on Pirahã. I
> will take a look at Everett's decriptions and the documentary Grammar of
> Happiness where there should be an interested occurrence of direct speech.
> 
> Best,
> Jocelyn Aznar,
> postdoc at ZAS,
> Berlin
> 
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