Quotatives -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Authors' biographies -- Preface: Introductory remarks on new and old quotatives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. New and old ways of introducing quotation -- 3. Situating the volume -- References -- Part I. Discourse perspectives -- Impersonal quotation and hypothetical discourse -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology and data -- 3. Analysis: Hypothetical discourse in conversation -- 3.1 Modeling discourse -- 3.2 Claim-backings -- 3.3 Fictitious humorous stories -- 4. Concluding discussion -- References -- Appendix: Transcription Conventions -- By three means -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Aim and scope -- 1.2 Theoretical framework -- 1.3 Data and methodology -- 2. Bare -- 2.1 Bare as a discourse marker -- 2.2 Quotative bare -- 3. Liksom -- 3.1 Liksom as a discourse marker -- 3.2 Quotative liksom -- 4. Sånn -- 4.1 Sånn as a discourse marker -- 4.2 Quotative sånn -- 5. Distribution across age groups -- 6. Combinations of the markers -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix: Transcription Conventions -- Part II. Typological perspectives -- Minds divided -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Speaker attitudes and quotative constructions -- 3. Grammatical categories in quotative constructions -- 3.1 Modality and evidentiality -- 4. Speaker attitudes and reported messages: A sample study -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Overview of the results -- 4.3 Number and functions of quotative constructions -- 4.4 Categories in the de dicto domain -- 4.5 Evidentiality in quotation -- 4.6 Modal categories -- 4.7 Illocution and some remaining observations -- 4.8 Summary of the preceding sections -- 5. A method for the typological analysis of speaker attitudes in quotative constructions -- 6. Some closing remarks: Semantics and pragmatics -- References.

Thetic speaker-instantiating quotative indexes as a cross-linguistic type -- 1. Quotative indexes from a typological perspective -- 1.1 Functional properties -- 1.2 Morphosyntactic typology -- 1.3 Non-clausal speaker representation -- 2. Speaker-instantiating quotative indexes: The data -- 2.1 Historical cases -- 2.2 Modern cases -- 3. Speaker-instantiating quotative indexes as a cross-linguistic type -- References -- Part III. Functional and formal perspectives -- On the characteristics of Japanese reported discourse -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Characteristics of reported discourse in Japanese -- 2.1 Alleged continuity between direct and indirect reported discourse -- 2.2 Syntactic realization of a quote: Complement or modifier? -- 2.3 Elliptic quotation -- 3. Varieties of elliptic quotation -- 3.1 Suspensive QPE -- 3.2 Sentence-final QPE -- 3.3 Extensions of sentence-final QPE -- 3.4 QPE in a noun-modifying construction -- 3.5 QPE in topic phrases -- 3.6 QPE in concessive constructions -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix: Sources of data -- Quotative go and be like -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Problems with item-based accounts -- 3. Solving the puzzle: An interclausal type of complementation -- 3.1 Problems in the verbal complementation analysis -- 3.2 An alternative proposal: Interclausal complementation -- 4. Relocating the initial innovation: 'Imitation clauses' constructionally apprehended as 'reporting clauses' -- 4.1 The imitative meaning of be like and go clauses -- 4.2 A constructional interpretation of the imitation-reporting analogy -- 4.3 I'm like, he went, this is me in a network of constructions -- 5. Revisiting the question of grammaticalization -- 5.1 Quotative be like and go: Grammaticalization or constructionalization? -- 5.2 Extensions of be like and go quotatives.

6. Where do we go from here? Current and future developments -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Quotation in sign languages -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Some aspects of sign language grammar -- 3. Verb agreement in sign languages -- 4. Formal aspects of role shift in sign languages -- 4.1 Methodology and data -- 4.2 Role shift: Direct or indirect speech? -- 4.3 Nonmanual markers for role shift -- 4.4 Interaction of nonmanuals for role shift in DGS -- 5. Functional aspects of role shift in sign languages -- 6. Reported speech in spoken and sign languages -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Part IV. Language variation and change -- Performed narrative -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The study -- 3. The Results -- 4. Be like -- 5. This is + speaker -- 6. Pragmatic functions of new quotatives -- 7. Discussion and conclusions -- References -- Appendix 1: Transcription Conventions -- Dutch quotative van -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The structural profile of quotative van -- 2.1 Non-quotative use of van -- 2.2 Quotative van -- 3. Sociolinguistic and stylistic aspects of quotative van -- 4. The diachronic development of van -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix: Glossary of specialist terms for research in quotation -- Author index -- Index of terms.