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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Güldemann, Tom
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2008.
Colección:Empirical approaches to language typology ; 34.
Temas:
African languages > Classification.
African languages > Discourse analysis.
African languages > Indexes.
Langues africaines > Classification.
Langues africaines > Analyse du discours.
Langues africaines > Index.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > African Languages.
African languages.
Sprachtypologie
Redeerwähnung
Afrikanische Sprachen
Indirekte Rede
Classification.
Indexes.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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.

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