The Grammar of thinking : from reported speech to reported thought in the languages of the world / edited by Daniela E. Casartelli [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Casartelli, Daniela E., editor.

Series:

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] Series

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] Series ; v.379

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Grammar.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2023]

Summary:

Sentence (1) represents the phenomenon of reported thought, (2) that of reported speech: (1) Sasha thought: "This is fine" or Sasha thought that this would be fine (2) Sasha said: "This is fine" or Sasha said that this would be fine While sentences as in (1) have often been discussed in the context of those in (2) the former have rarely received specific attention. This has meant that much of the semantic and structural complexity, cross-linguistic variation, as well as the precise relation between (1) and (2) and related phenomena have remained unstudied. Addressing this gap, this volume represents the first collection of studies specifically dedicated to reported thought. It introduces a wide variety of cross-linguistic examples of the phenomenon and brings together authors from linguistic typology, corpus and interactional linguistics, and formal and functional theories of syntax to shed light on how talking about thoughts can become grammar in the languages of the world. The book should be of interest to linguists, philosophers of language, linguistic anthropologists and communication specialists seeking to understand topics at the boundary of stylistics and morphosyntax, as well as the grammar of epistemicity.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

1 Introduction

Part I: Contrasting reported speech and reported thought

2 The morphosyntax of reported speech and reported thought: A preliminary survey

3 To want, to think, to say: The development of WANT in German from volitional to reportative modal

4 Reporting speech and thought in Upper Napo Kichwa

5 On the emergence of quotative bueno in Spanish: A dialectal view

Part II: Pathways from saying to thinking

6 Thinking out loud? Je me suis dit 'I said to myself' and j'étais là 'I was there' in French talk-in-interaction

7 Self-quotations of speech and thought, and how to distinguish them

8 When saying becomes thinking: A case of the Georgian autonomous quotative metki

9 Reported thought embedded in reported speech in Thai news reports

Part III: Reported thought as a category in its own right

10 Complementizer deletion in structures of reporting on thinking in Argentinian Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese

11 Towards a typology of reported thought

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

3-11-106583-9