ABSTRACT
The only means regularly employed to indicate the difference between direct and indirect speech is a change in pronominal person categories from those found in the original utterance (quoted word-for-word in direct speech) to those appropriate to the situation in which the original utterance is being discussed (in the case of indirect speech). There is no formal way to distinguish logophoric from anaphoric reference:
direct speech
Dèm tok ‘Wì layk yù.’
6sP talkF+ 4sP likeF 2oP
‘They said, “We like you.”’
indirect speech
Dèm tok dèm layk mì.
6sP talkF+ 6sP likeF 1oP
‘They told me that they like me.’
