Q: Reported Speech

[John Peterson]

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Maggie,

Sorry for the delay, but when this question was sent out to the list I was
in India and didn't have access to my library.

In an article of hers - written in German - Karen Ebert discusses verbs of
speaking (verbum dicendi) in a number of languages, including some South
Asian languages, and their development to conjunctions, such as Nepali
"bhanera" from bhan- 'say'. While that is probably not what you're looking
for, there is one article of hers listed in the bibliography whose title
sounds promising at least:

Karen H. Ebert. 1986. "Reported Speech in some languages of Nepal" In:
Florian Coulmas (ed.): "Direct and indirect speech." Den Haag: Mouton

Maybe that will be of help. If you're interested, I can also give you the
details of her article on the verba dicendi.

All the best,
John


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> Dear Friends
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>
> I would be grateful for your pointers to studies in English on reported
> speech/represented speech and thought/constructed dialogue in Urdu, Hindi,
> and related languages. Most useful would be studies based on naturally
> occurring data in the subfields of narrative and discourse analysis. I
will
> be happy to summarize. Thanks.
>
> Maggie Ronkin
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> Maggie Ronkin
> Ph.D. Candidate in Sociolinguistics
> Department of Linguistics
> Georgetown University, USA
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