Reports of what someone said or thought are interesting from both philosophical and linguistic perspectives. Introducing a non-actual context of utterance, they reveal the nature of indexicality (deixis) and facilitate context shifts, a phenomenon which is intimately related to the representation of perspective in language. Recent years have seen a growing interest in report constructions in Latin and Ancient Greek from a variety of subdisciplines and frameworks, including formal semantics, cognitive semantics and narratology. Semantic and pragmatic features that have been addressed in these studies include the choice between different kinds of complementation (Huitink 2010, Cristofaro 1996, 2008), the use of particles (Wakker 1997), logophoricity (Jøhndal 2012), the retention of tenses (Bary 2012), the linguistic features of character text (the NWO project Ancient War Narrative), and the unmarked switching between direct and indirect discourse (Maier 2012).

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers from various backgrounds working on attitude and speech reports in Latin and Ancient Greek in order to join forces and move the discussion forward.

If you have any questions concerning the workshop, please send an email to thelanguageofreports@gmail.com (Corien Bary).