Reported speech in Russian and Italian: verbs of speech and particles
The present paper describes a well-known phenomenon: Languages without a special grammatical category to transmit reported speech often do so by lexical means. The analysis focuses on the Russian particles `mol’ and `deskat'’ – formed from the Old Russian verbs of speech – and their Italian cor...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Oslo
2014-07-01
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| Series: | Oslo Studies in Language |
| Online Access: | https://journals.uio.no/osla/article/view/727 |