Quotativmarker im Russischen (типо/типа)

Reported speech is characterized by two criteria: shift of deictic markers and shift of pragmatic markers relative to the communicative situation of the reporter. Consequently, there are four possibilities of combining the criteria: 1. direct (no deictic and pragmatic shift) and 2. indirect (full deictic and pragmatic shift) reported speech, and two mixed possibilities, namely 3. adapted and 4. imitated speech (the latter also known in the belles lettres as “free indirect speech”). This paper summarizes the possibilities of quotative indexes in Modern Russian, which indicate reported speech, and places the relatively new to Russian quotative indexes типо/ типа at their place. Emphasis is given to the actually discussed question if the Russian quotative indexes express “evidentiality” - as a primary meaning they don´t. Keywords: reported speech ; evidentiality ; shift of deictic markers ; pragmatic shift ; adapted Published Online: 2010-04-16 Published in Print: 2010-02 © by Akademie Verlag, Berlin, Germany