Re Nicholas Ostler's response

[Peter Hook]

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There may be another reason for the lack of response to Maggie Ronkin's
query: No-one writing in English has worked much on the question of
reported speech in Indian languages.

>From my experience of Marathi and Hindi-Urdu I would say that there is
significant variation from language to language with Marathi being much
more likely to use the "direct quotation" strategy and Hindi-Urdu more
likely to resemble patterns found in European languages.

        Peter Hook

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Nicholas Ostler wrote:

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> At 12:41 pm +0000 6/4/01, Maggie Ronkin wrote:
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> >Q: Reported Speech: Follow Up
> >
> >Dear Friends
> >
> >Recently, I wrote to ask for pointers to studies in English on reported
> >speech/represented speech and thought/constructed dialogue in Urdu, Hindi,
> >and related languages. There were no responses from the list.
> >
> >Maggie Ronkin
> >Georgetown University
>
> Surely this absence is because there is no such
> "reported speech/represented speech and thought/constructed dialogue
> in Urdu, Hindi, and related languages"
>
> As a non-native, "I don't know, but I've been told"
> that all reported speech is indistinguishable from quotation, with
> even personal deictic pronouns reflecting the reported speaker's
> point of view.
>
> This seems to be the case at least in the two languages I am familiar
> with, Hindi and Sanskrit.
>
> S'ubham astu
>
> Nicholas Ostler
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