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Grammaticisation of medial speech verbs Grammaticisation of medial speech verbs: A case study from Yali (West-New Guinea)

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natural language processing

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paper
Creator:
GayRie
Editor:
UniLanSonUta
Publisher:
CCSDJoh
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International audience Reported speech constructions in many Papuan languages exhibit a range of functions that go beyond the primary function of representing an utterance. For some of these languages, it has been pointed out that a specific verb form -the so called medial-verb form -is required to introduce reported speech in these contexts. This paper presents synchronic evidence for a grammaticisation cline that describes the development from a medial speech introducing clause that introduces reported speech proper in a clause chaining construction to a marker of extended reported speech, a quotative marker, a multi-purpose NP marker, and a marker of epistemic stance.

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quotative markingNP markingepistemic stanceclause chainingreported speechgrammaticisation of speech verbs[SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics

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