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 …

Languages offer various ways to present what someone said, thought, imagined, felt, and so
on from their perspective. The prototypical example of a perspective-shifting device is direct …

The sign language phenomenon that some scholars refer to as “agreement” has triggered
controversial discussions among sign language linguists. Crucially, it has been argued to …

Starting with Frege, the semantics (and pragmatics) of quotation has received a steady flow
of attention over the last one hundred or so years. It has not, however, been subject to the …

This paper gives an overview over two different kinds of protagonists' perspective taking in
narrative texts, Free Indirect Discourse (FID) and Protagonist Projection (PP)/Viewpoint …

We propose an extension of DRT for analyzing pictorial narratives. We test drive our PicDRT
framework by analyzing the way authors represent characters' mental states and perception …

Languages offer various ways to report what someone said. There is now a vast but
heterogeneous literature on speech report constructions scattered throughout the semantics …

This chapter provides an overview of our current understanding of the syntactic typologies of
relativization, gained from studies on typologically diverse spoken languages, and applies …

There'sa venerable tradition in linguistics and philosophy of analyzing the semantics of
speech and belief reports. In recent years linguists in particular have shifted their attention …

The central challenge posed by mixed quotation is that it exhibits both regular semantic use
and metalinguistic reference, simultaneously. Semanticists disagree considerably on how to …