Tom Güldemann

Manfred von Roncador

The present volume unites 15 papers on reported discourse from a wide genetic and geographical variety of languages. Besides the treatment of traditional problems of reported discourse like the classification of its intermediate categories, the book reflects in particular how its grammatical, semantic, and pragmatic properties have repercussions in other linguistic domains like tense-aspect-modality, evidentiality, reference tracking and pronominal categories, and the grammaticalization history of quotative constructions. Almost all papers present a major shift away from analyzing reported discourse with the help of abstract transformational principles toward embedding it in functional and pragmatic aspects of language. Another central methodological approach pervading this collection consists in the discourse-oriented examination of reported discourse based on large corpora of spoken or written texts which is increasingly replacing analyses of constructed de-contextualized utterances prevalent in many earlier treatments. The book closes with a comprehensive bibliography on reported discourse of about 1.000 entries.

A Meeting Ground for Different Linguistic Domains

Reported Discourse

Winfried Boeder

Wolfram Bublitz

Heinz Vater

Diese Festschrift wurde dem Sprachwissenschaftler Winfried Boeder (Universität Oldenburg) zu seinem 65. Geburtstag von seinen Freunden, Kollegen und Schülern zugeeignet. Dem vielseitigen, recht unterschiedliche Aspekte natürlicher Sprachen berücksichtigenden Werk des Jubilars entsprechend, umfasst der Band Studien zu drei verschiedenen, doch miteinander verbundenen Bereichen: zur Philologie (einschließlich sprachkultureller Aspekte), zur Sprachtypologie und zur Sprachstruktur (sowohl zur Struktur einzelner Sprachen als auch zum Sprachvergleich). Einen Schwerpunkt bilden Untersuchungen zu kaukasischen Sprachen, ganz besonders zum Georgischen, wobei in vielfältiger Weise an Analysen des Jubilars angeknüpft wurde. This festschrift is cordially and respectfully dedicated to the linguist Winfried Boeder (University of Oldenburg, Germany) to honour him as a friend, colleague and teacher on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Winfried Boeder is not only one of the most distinguished scholars of Caucasian languages but he is also widely recognised for the great and continuing contribution he has made to the field of general and comparative linguistics. Accordingly, the present volume includes papers on three separate but related areas: philology (both from a linguistic and cultural point of view), language typology and language structure (including comparative studies). The 25 contributions are thus held together by the links they have with various aspects of Winfried Boeder's work. Georgian, a language for which he has a particular affection, is the topic of a large number of papers, both from a synchronic and diachronic point of view.

Manfred von Roncador

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