Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of maps, tables, and figures -- Abbreviations and conventions -- Chapter 1. The framework, aim, and data of this -- study -- Chapter 2. The internal structure of quotative -- indexes -- Chapter 3. Quotative indexes and their linguistic -- context -- Chapter 4. Previous research on the history of -- quotatives and a new approach: mimesis -- Chapter 5. The origin of quotative indexes -- Chapter 6. The functional extension of -- reported-discourse constructions -- Chapter 7. Grammatical functions unrelated to -- reported-discourseconstructions -- Chapter 8. Summary -- Backmatter