Betreff: Quotatives

[Alysse Rasmussen]

Can you give one or two ASL examples to help us put it all together?

PS Thanks for your support at UCF.  :)

Alysse

In a message dated 3/9/2004 11:29:21 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
dparvaz at MAC.COM writes:
Quotatives introduce speech and actions that appear to be direct quotations 
or demonstrated actions, and attribute them to the subject. And example in 
English is

(1) And he's all, "La, la, la.." (looking around not paying attention)
(2) And mom's all, "Are you wearing that?"

So the action exmplified by humming and not paying attention are attributed 
to "he". The "you" in (2) actually refers to the speaker. A German example 
would be

(3) Und ich so: Mensch! Wie kannst du sowas sagen?

So the "du" doesn't refer to the adressee in the immediate context, but to 
someone in the narrated event. A final example is Sanskrit "iti" which can be 
used to introduce literal quotations, but can also be used to discuss states of 
mind, intention, etc. in something analogous to "I'm going to Grandma's house 
ITI she went into the forest." Note that in none of these cases can one infer 
that anyone actually *said* anything.

I'd like to think that ASL (and SLs in general) has a very rich set of these..

Cheers,

Dan.


Hi, Dan,
what do you mean with "quotatives"? Give an example.
Thanks,
Daniela 

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Von: For the discussion of linguistics and signed languages.
Datum: 03/09/04 16:27:42
An: SLLING-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA
Betreff: Quotatives

Casting a net out...

Is anyone out there working on quotatives in SLs? I've been kicking around a 
couple of ideas, and I just need to see if anyone is working on this..

Cheers,

Dan.


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