Reported Speech in Spoken Corpora
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Universal
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Reported speech has a feature Reported=Yes
on its head.
It is generally the comp:obj
of a speech verb, such as dire ’to say'.
pattern { X -[comp:obj]-> Y; Y[Reported=Yes] }
French
Reported speech was previously annotated using the syntactic relation parataxis:obj
, but this is now considered obsolete.