jeff_l
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13.8 Reported speech and thought 695
In (860.a), the first s seems to function as an adverbial complementizer,
which itself takes an a-\s complement. In (860.b), the first s has a more causal
sense.
In (861), the Q-\S clause is the complement of Comitative d, which with
main-clause verb -vbdu- 'be separated' means 'cease; be dissuaded from
(doing)'.
(861) musam u-mar n-sbdu
but Neg-Fut lPlS-be.separated.Shlmpf
d a-\s-\faella-saen n-aja
Comit Dem-\Instr-\on-3MaPl lPlS-make.Reslt
y aAha-naerAadd aqqal-aen di-hd-daer
Dat Dem-\Dat- lPlACentrip return.ShImpf-3MaPl here
'But we won't be dissuaded from having made (a place) for them, so
that they may come back to us here.'
13.8 Reported speech and thought
There are no logophoric pronouns, or other morphosyntactic features unique to
reported speech (and thought).
Propositional content under the scope of verb -νηηυ- 'say (thus)', by
extension 'think (=say thus to oneself)', is expressed as a (more or less) direct
quotation, and therefore takes the same form as the original speech with no
explicit complementizer. However, "indirect" deictics adjusted to the current
speech event are possible, like 'here' in (862) when the quoted speech event
took place in another location.
(862) 1-nna [i-tatt di-hd]
3MaSgS-say.PerfP [3MaSgS-eat.LoImpfP here]
'He says that he eats here.'
-vrul- 'believe' is a similar case without overt complementizer (863).
(863) t-serel t-a-maett iy-aet
3FeSgS-believe.PerfP Fe-Sg-woman one-FeSg
[a i-rha]
[Foe 3MaSgS-desire.Reslt]
'She believed that it's a woman [focus] that he loves.' [K]
The verb -kuddvl- 'deny' takes 'that' complements with a-\s, as in (864),
where the embedded clause happens to have a focalized pronoun in subject
function.
