Putting the threads together

pp. 1-19

in: Alessandro Capone, The pragmatics of indirect reports, Berlin, Springer, 2016

Abstract

This book has been written after many detours, represented by my previous monographs and doctoral thesis (Capone 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002). All these steps (as I am now aware, although I was not aware of this when I wrote the previous works) led in the direction of this monograph on indirect reports. On my way, I also found some companions whose work led in this direction (although they too were probably unaware of this): James Higginbotham, Yan Huang, Ernie Lepore and Kasia Jaszczolt. Their considerations on linguistics and philosophy of language were essential input to the current work.