REPORTED SPEECH -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Abbreviations used in the glosses -- Introductory remarks on reported speech and thought -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- I. SLAVIC LANGUAGES -- Shifting points of orientation in Modern Russian: Tense selection in 'reported perception' -- 1. Reported speech in Russian -- 2. 'Explanatory sentences' -- 3. Some semantic distinctions among explanatory sentences -- 4. Sources of data on 'reported perception' -- 5. Some distinguishing features of sensory verbs -- 6. The distinction between the conjunctions cto and kak -- 7. Some quantitative data -- 8. Aspect in the dependent clause -- 9. Factors influencing the choice of tense forms: inclusion or exclusion of COP -- 10. Factors influencing the choice of tense forms: 'retrospective' vs. 'narrative' mode of use of the past tense -- 11. Some additional factors favouring the choice of past tense -- 12. Conclusions -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Reported speech in South Slavic -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Eastern South Slavic -- 3. Western South Slavic -- 4. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- II. ROMANCE LANGUAGES -- The verb in indirect speech in Old French: System in change -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Typology of Old French -- 3. Indirect speech in Old French -- 4. Analysis of the data of the corpus -- 5. Conclusion -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- Modalpatterns of direct and indirect discourse in Peninsular Spanish: An analysis within the framework of speech act typology -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Assertives -- 3. Directives -- 4. Assertives and directives: a case of lexical homonymy -- 5. Conclusion -- NOTES -- SOURCES -- REFERENCES -- Reported speech in Latin -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Illocutionary force in indirect speech in Latin -- 3. Indirect speech, verbs of mental activity and verbs of perception.

4. 'Deviating' subordinate clauses 'within' reported speech -- 5. 'Oblique' subjunctives in 'first degree' subordinate clauses -- 6. Concluding remarks -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Tense in (free) indirect discourse in French -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Sells's discourse roles -- 3. Tense and adverbs in embedded clauses -- 4. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- III. GERMANIC LANGUAGES -- Reported speech in Swedish -- 1. Direct and indirect speech. General remarks -- 2. Direct and indirect speech in Swedish -- 3. Primary and secondary deixis -- 4. Primary deixis in Swedish -- 5. Secondary deixis -- 6. Word order -- 7. Conclusion -- NOTES -- SOURCES -- REFERENCES -- Modality of verb forms in German reported speech -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A characterisation of reported speech -- 3. Function of the subjunctive mood in reported speech -- 4. Conclusions -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Tense and temporal ordering in English and Dutch indirect speech -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Sequence of tenses in English and Dutch -- 3. Two differences between English and Dutch indirect speech -- 4. Aspect and temporal ordering in indirect speech -- 5. Final remarks -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Tense in reported speech and its frame of reference -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Tense sphere replaced by time sphere -- 3. Reference sphere -- 4. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Sequence of tenses in English and Bengali -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Tense in indirect speech in English: two analyses -- 3. Tense in indirect speech in Bengali -- 4. Tense in indirect speech in Bengali: the two analyses evaluated -- 5. Conclusions and prospects -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- IV. CHINESE -- Free indirect speech in Chinese -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Aspect -- 3. Free indirect speech -- 4. The case of Chinese -- 5. Effects of the absence of verb tense -- APPENDIX -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- Index.