[Lingtyp] Language without direct speech or reported speech?

[Adam Singerman]

Dear Jocelyn,

Everett's description of Pirahã as lacking embedded speech reports has
been challenged in work by Uli Sauerland. I would recommend that you
take a look at the contributions to Recursion Across Domains
(Cambridge University Press, 2018). Some of the analytic challenges
concerning parataxis versus hypotaxis in speech reports are discussed
at greater length in this Glossa article, which discusses the
Trans-New Guinean language Teiwa:
https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/5337/

All the best,
Adam

Amaral, L., Maia, M., Nevins, A., & Roeper, T. (Eds.). (2018).
Recursion across Domains. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
doi:10.1017/9781108290708
Sauerland, U. & Hollebrandse, B. & Kratochvíl, F., (2020) “When
hypotaxis looks like parataxis: embedding and complementizer agreement
in Teiwa”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 5(1): 89. doi:
https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.931