[Lingtyp] Language without direct speech or reported speech?

[Françoise Rose]

Dear Jocelyn,
I forgot a fact that I find very interesting in detecting "unmarked" inserted direct speech.
In all languages that I have surveyed with a categorical genderlect system, people shift to the lect of the person they cite when they quote them. So for example, if some direct speech is introduced without a speech verb in Mojeño Trinitario, and the original speaker of the inserted directed speech is of a different gender than the speaker, it immediately shows. This is discussed in my following papers:

Rose, Françoise. 2015. « On male and female speech and more. A typology of categorical gender indexicality in indigenous South American languages ». International Journal of American Linguistics 81 (4): 495‑537.

Rose, Françoise. 2013. « Los generolectos del mojeño ». Liames 13: 115‑34.

Best,
Françoise

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Objet : [Lingtyp] Language without direct speech or reported speech?

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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