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In:Reported Speech: Forms and functions of the verb
Edited by Theo Janssen and Wim van der Wurff
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 43] 1996
► pp. v–vi

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Table of contents

List of contributorsvii
Abbreviations used in the glossesviii
Introductory remarks on reported speech and thought1
1. Slavic languages
Shifting points of orientation in Modern Russian: Tense selection in ‘reported perception’15
Reported speech in South Slavic57
2. Romance languages
The verb in indirect speech in Old French: System in change75
Modal patterns of direct and indirect discourse in Peninsular Spanish: An analysis within the framework of speech act typology97
Reported speech in Latin121
Tense in (free) indirect discourse in French141
3. Germanic languages
Reported speech in Swedish165
Modality of verb forms in German reported speech189
Tense and temporal ordering in English and Dutch indirect speech213
Tense in reported speech and its frame of reference237
Sequence of tenses in English and Bengali261
4. Chinese
Free indirect speech in Chinese289
Index299
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