toc linguist list dear sirs prof helen dry offered might include announcements activities linguist message 24 april 97 find announcement workshop reported speech thank advance manfred roncador announcement workshop 20th conference german linguistic society dgfs halle form function reported speech coordinators tom gueldemann manfred von roncador linguistic studies increasingly demonstrated contrast traditional approach clearcut distinction direct indirect speech many languages untenable existence intermediate forms semidirect speech socalled style indirect libre free indirect discourse logophoric constructions point rather analysis whereby different forms reported speech assigned specific position continuum whose extreme poles characterized minimal maximal shift deictic centre cf roncador 1988 framework theoretical approach interesting investigate different functions individual forms reported speech may serve discourse another interesting question concerns grammatical characteristics quotative constructions qc e linguistic expressions used languages signal reported speech qcs related functions different categories reported speech laid continuum mentioned possible features investigated respect inter alia internal structure qcs obligatoriness individual propositional elements reference speaker addressee particular strategy expressing locutionary aspect nature semantosyntactic relation qc quote historical processes qcs elements subject constitute another possible focus attention meant include discussion grammaticalization processes domain already quite extensive probably focused much development speech verbs analyses reported speech single languages often still oriented towards concepts developed european languages contributions non european languages offering new insights lessknown aspects functional domain particularly welcome serve put first attempts typologize phenomenon reported speech functional formal aspects cf roeck 1994 broader empirical basis references roeck de 1994 typology speech reports engberg pedersen et al eds function expression functional grammar berlin mouton de gruyter pp 331351 roncador von 1988 zwischen direkter und indirekter rede nichtwoertliche direkte rede erlebte rede logophorische konstruktionen und verwandtes tuebingen max niemeyer prof helen dry dr manfred von roncador afrikanistik universitaet bayreuth d95440 bayreuth tel 921 55 21 91 fax 921 55 36 27