Quotative indexes in African languages a synchronic and diachronic survey
The book represents the results of a synchronic and diachronic cross-African survey of quotative indexes. These are linguistic expressions that signal in the ongoing discourse the presence of a quote (often called "direct reported speech"). For this purpose, 39 African languages were selec...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter
c2008.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Empirical approaches to language typology ; 34. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31510218*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter; Contents; List of maps, tables, and figures; Abbreviations and conventions; Chapter 1. The framework, aim, and data of this study; Chapter 2. The internal structure of quotative indexes; Chapter 3. Quotative indexes and their linguistic context; Chapter 4. Previous research on the history of quotatives and a new approach: mimesis; Chapter 5. The origin of quotative indexes; Chapter 6. The functional extension of reported-discourse constructions; Chapter 7. Grammatical functions unrelated to reported-discourseconstructions; Chapter 8. Summary; Backmatter;
