Abstract In many languages, expressions of the type ‘x said: “p”’, ‘x said that p’ or ‘allegedly, p’ share properties with common syntactic types such as constructions with subordination, paratactic constructions, and constructions with sentence-level adverbs. On closer examination, however, they often turn out to be atypical members of these syntactic classes. In this paper we argue that a more coherent picture emerges if we analyse these expressions as a dedicated syntactic domain in itself, which we refer to as ‘reported speech’. Based on typological observations we argue for the idiosyncrasy of reported speech as a syntactic class. The article concludes with a proposal for a cross-linguistic characterisation that aims at capturing this broadly conceived domain of reported speech with a single semantic definition.

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报告的语音构成专用的句法领域

摘要在许多语言中，“ x”表示类型：“ p”，“ x表示p”或“可以说，p”具有共同的句法类型的属性，例如从属结构，形容词结构和带有句子的结构。级别副词。然而，仔细研究，他们往往是这些句法类别的非典型成员。在本文中，我们认为，如果我们将这些表达本身作为专用的句法域进行分析，就会出现更加连贯的画面，我们将其称为“报告的言语”。基于类型学的观察，我们认为所报告的言语是一种句法学的特质。本文最后提出了一种跨语言表征的建议，旨在通过单个语义定义来捕获报告语音的这一广泛构思的领域。