Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Abbreviations used in the glosses viii
5. Introductory remarks on reported speech and thought 1
6. 1. Slavic languages
7. Shifting points of orientation in Modern Russian 15
8. Reported speech in South Slavic 57
9. 2. Romance languages
10. The verb in indirect speech in Old French 75
11. Modal patterns of direct and indirect discourse in Peninsular Spanish 97
12. Reported speech in Latin 121
13. Tense in (free) indirect discourse in French 141
14. 3. Germanic languages
15. Reported speech in Swedish 165
16. Modality of verb forms in German reported speech 189
17. Tense and temporal ordering in English and Dutch indirect speech 213
18. Tense in reported speech and its frame of reference 237
19. Sequence of tenses in English and Bengali 261
20. 4. Chinese
21. Free indirect speech in Chinese 289
22. Index 299