Reported Discourse and Logophoricity in Southern Hokkaido Dialects of Ainu

Abstract

Th is paper attempts to provide a systematic description of reported discourse (RD) categories in Southern Hokkaido dialects of Ainu from syn- tactic, discourse-functional, historical and typological perspectives. While RD has been analysed in the previous literature either as quotations or as direct vs. indirect discourse, I argue, based on a continuum approach, that Ainu has three main RD-constructions distinguished by deixis as a core principle in determining the orientation of RD: (i) direct discourse (DRD) with the author's perspective, (ii) indirect discourse (IRD) with the reporter's perspective, and (iii) semi-direct discourse (SRD) with the combined perspective of the author and reporter. In the case of SRD, use of the so-called person in the case of coreference of the third/second author with a participant in the quote indicates a consistent reporter-oriented shift in pronominal reference, while the other references occur as they would have been used in the original discourse. I propose to identify Tamura's (2000: 74) 'fi rst in quotes' usage of the indefi nite as logophoric in the sense of Hagege (1974). In this analysis SRD, DRD, and IRD are regarded as stylistic and discourse-organizing options, though some of them have been conventionalized as primary styles in certain folklore genres.*

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