2024/02/15 by Suzi Lima, Uli Sauerland, Tonjes Veenstra
#Brazil #direct speech #indirect speech #quotatives
paper · doi:10.25894/ldd.360
In light of the literature on reported speech and discussion of reported speech in the eight languages included in this collection, we present an overview of some features of reported speech constructions in Indigenous languages spoken in Brazil. Features of reported speech constructions that we discuss include the presence, partial presence, or absence of quote framers; the complete or limited marking of the matrix clause (the framer clause that may identify the reported speaker); the multimodal nature of reported speech, that is, phonological cues or gestures in addition to morphosyntactic marking, and the ways direct and indirect speech are contrasted in a language when this distinction is available. Overall, this volume contributes to typological studies on quotatives since the properties of direct/indirect speech are not uniform across the languages of the world.