Reported Speech in Western Subanon

Abstract

Reported speech is claimed to be its own syntactic domain deserving special attention (Spronck & Nikitina 2019). Recent work focusing on West African languages has produced a set of proposed typologies or patterns around the introduction of units of reported speech (ERC grant: Discourse reporting in African storytelling No758232). One output of that project is an ELAN-CorpA (Chanard 2015, 2019) template for marking reported speech as reported on by Paterson, Hantgan and Chanard (2021). We take the typologies presented in the template and investigate how they align with patterns of reported speech events in several texts of Western Subanon, a language of the southern Philippines. We situate our analysis in the context of reported speech typological patterns presented and developed through cross-linguistic work in other language families. Finally, we discuss some general reported speech patterns across the Western Subanon texts.

Date
30 Jun, 2021 11:30
Location
Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

Abstract Bibliography

Chanard (2019)
(). ELAN-CorpA. CNRS-LLACAN. Retrieved from http://llacan.vjf.cnrs.fr/res_ELAN-CorpA.php
Chanard (2015)
(). ELAN-CorpA: Lexicon-aided annotation in ELAN. In Mettouchi, A., Vanhove, M. & Caubet, D. (Eds.), Corpus-based Studies of Lesser-described Languages: The CorpAfroAs corpus of spoken AfroAsiatic languages. (pp. 311–332). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.68.10cha
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, & (). Building Multilingual Comparable Corpora. Retrieved from http://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/sites/icldc
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& (). Reported speech forms a dedicated syntactic domain. Linguistic Typology, 23(1). 119–159. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2019-0005
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Hugh Paterson III
Hugh Paterson III
Collaborative Scholar

I specialize in bespoke research at the intersection of Linguistics, Law, Languages, and Technology; specifically utility and life-cycle management for information products in these spaces.

William Hall
William Hall
Linguist

I have worked for several decades with Western Subanon language speakers.

Rebecca Paterson
Rebecca Paterson
Postdoctoral Researcher

My research interests include field linguistics, grammatical description, and translation.

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