Re: HELP: a few questions

 --- JS Bangs <jaspax@...> wrote: > H. S.
Teoh sikyal:
>
> Why is this a problem? Yivrian has no indirect
> discourse, but I've never
> felt bad about it. Who says every language has to
> have every construction?
>
nor sanskrt : "he said 'i'm going'" and "he said he
was going" come out as |gaccha:mi:tyava:dit| (
ga'ccha:mi iti a'va:dit )
|gaccha:mi|, 1sing present of |gam|, go
|iti| thus ( reported speech marker )
|ava:dit|, 3sing aorist of |vad|, say

interestingly |iti| can also give reported though. my
book gives this example:

|punarvadati:titiSThanti| ( punar vadati iti tiSThanti
)

they stop to hear him speak further ( lit. 'he is
speaking again' so-thinking they halt )

bn

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