Some remarks on direct quotation in Kombai

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“…Alternatively, Aikanã never had such quotative constructions, but created a calque on a Kwazá construction, such as the volitional, which involves -dami"-(as in example 31), or the desiderative, involving -heta-. Areal diffusion of constructions based on fictive interaction is also attested for the Andean region, involving Quechua, Aymara and Mapuche (Adelaar 1990) and for New Guinea, involving Dani and Awyu languages (de Vries 1990). Evidence for areal diffusion in Rondônia of other grammatical traits (e.g.…”

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“…Whatever the particularities of the future in the various verb classes of Aikanã, it is striking that Aikanã has no ''quotative construction'' as in Kwazá, where it is used productively to express all kinds of ''fictive interaction'' (Pascual 2002) or ''inner speech' ' (de Vries 1990). In Aikanã, neither quotation nor, e.g., the desiderative are expressed by such constructions.…”

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Reduplication and repetition of person markers in Guaporé isolates

Voort

2009

Morphology

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The person marking system of the language isolate Kwazá, spoken in the Brazilian Amazon, has several unusual properties. Its bound inflectional person suffixes can be reduplicated in order to express temporal and aspectual notions in a rather un-iconic way. The reduplicated segments are not defined by phonotactic boundaries, such as the syllable, but they are based on morphological units, disregarding their phonotactic structure. The origin and nature of this rare type of reduplication are not very clear. Morphologically based reduplication is not attested in the neighbouring languages with which Kwazá forms a linguistic area. However, Kwazá person markers are also involved in an unusual type of recursive construction that is encountered in the neighbouring languages, too. Recursive application of person markers occurs in Kwazá to express quoted speech in a transparent manner and has also given rise to less transparent expressions such as the desiderative. Similar constructions in the Aikanã and Wari' languages suggest that this quotative construction is an areal feature of at least the Brazilian part of the Guaporé region. The quotative construction may help to understand the poorly understood phenomenon of seemingly redundant person marking in Kanoê, another language isolate of the region. It remains a question whether it also plays a role in the origin of the unique morphologically determined reduplication constructions of Kwazá.

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Section: Recursion Of Person Marking In Aikanãmentioning

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Section: Recursion Of Person Marking In Aikanãmentioning

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Reduplication and repetition of person markers in Guaporé isolates

Voort

2009

Morphology

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“…228-230), and also purpose in Tauya (MacDonald, 1990a), in Korowai (van Enk and de Vries, 1997, pp. 104-105), in Kombai (see de Vries, 1990), and also in a number of Western Austronesian languages (Klamer, 2000). Lower Grand Valley Dani also employs direct speech reports to express the speaker's intention (Bromley, 1981, p. 245).…”

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Semi-direct speech: Manambu and beyond

Aikhenvald

2008

Language Sciences

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Every language has some way of reporting what someone else has said. To express what Jakobson [Jakobson, R., 1990. Shifters, categories, and the Russian verb. Selected writings. Word and Language. Mouton, The Hague, Paris, pp. 130-153] called 'speech within speech', the speaker can use their own words, recasting the original text as their own, within an 'indirect' speech construction. Or the other person may be quoted 'directly', just as they said it, or more or less so. One major difference between direct and indirect speech lies in the way person specification within the speech report is cast. In direct speech, person reference is expressed exactly as it was in the original speech report. In indirect speech, the person reference is shifted to the perspective of the speaker. There is a third option-a 'middle ground' situation known as 'semi-direct' speech-with incomplete person shift. Semi-direct speech often involves coreferentiality between the current speaker-rather than the author of the speech report-and a participant within the speech report. In Manambu, a Ndu language spoken in the New Guinea area, semi-direct speech differs from both direct and indirect speech in a few interesting ways. Further examples of semi-direct speech and its various guises come

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“…e.g. Reesink, 1993;De Vries, 1990, for Papuan; Adelaar, 1990, for Andean languages; see Lord, 1993, for references on African, Southeast Asian and pidgin/creole languages). The similar marking of speech and cognitive acts has been explained by considering both of them a kind of speech -cognitive activities are a type of 'inner speech' (Vygotsky, 1962).…”

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How report verbs become quote markers and complementisers

Klamer

2000

Lingua

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In many languages across the world, verbs reporting speech, thoughts and perceptions (also referred to as quotative verbs) grammaticalise into quote markers and/or complementisers. This paper analyses the change of the items kua and fen in the Austronesian languages Tukang Besi and Buru, as originally full lexical 'report' verbs that became open to reinterpretation as grammatical items after having undergone 'semantic bleaching'. It is proposed that the 'semantic bleaching', which crucially involves loss of argument structure, is caused by a mismatch between linguistic levels -here between surface syntax and lexical argument structure. The mismatch involves a violation of universal constraints on 'Semantic Transparency' and 'Structural Simplicity', and results in a reduced lexical representation of the report verb as a predicate without arguments. The multifunctional, polysemous character of this 'grammaticalised' item is now a consequence of its interaction with particular surface syntactic constructions. In other words, 'V to C' grammaticalisation is a structurally determined variable interpretation of a lexically impoverished item, and does not involve a change in category (labels) (contra Harris and Campbell, 1995:63; Reh, 1984: 37-38: see also Haspelmath, 1998: 327-328). This view of grammaticalised verbs as lexical forms with reduced argument structure may be extended to other areas of verb-grammaticalisation.The " I particularly wish to thank Miriam Butt and Miriam Meyerhoff and the Lingua reviewer, whose suggestions helped to shape this paper in its present form. I also thank the following people for their valuable comments and criticisms on the various predecessors of this paper or the talks reporting about it: Geert Booij, Joan Bresnan, Mark Donohue, Tom Giildemann. Bemd Heine, Gertjan Postma, Ger Reesmk, Nigel Vincent, Lourens de Vries, Jan-Wouter Zwart, and the participants of the HIL workshop on Quotative structures (Leiden, November 1998), especially Johan Rooryck. A short conference version of this paper is to appear in the Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Austronesian Linguisttcs. held in Taipei similar path of grammaticalisation of report verbs across languages is explained by proposing a list of structural characteristics (of syntax and discourse) that appear to be relevant in allowing the grammaticalisation to take place. Genetically related languages may diverge because they differ in one (or more) of those characteristics: the report verb in Kambera, a language closely related to Buru and Tukang Besi, did not grammaticalise because of a different surface constituent order. 0

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Some remarks on direct quotation in Kombai

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Reduplication and repetition of person markers in Guaporé isolates

Reduplication and repetition of person markers in Guaporé isolates

Semi-direct speech: Manambu and beyond

How report verbs become quote markers and complementisers

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