1. List of contributors 2. Abbreviations used in the glosses 3. Introductory remarks on reported speech and thought (by Janssen, Theo) 4. 1. Slavic languages 5. Shifting points of orientation in Modern Russian: Tense selection in 'reported perception' (by Barentsen, Adriaan) 6. Reported speech in South Slavic (by Gvozdanovic, Jadranka) 7. 2. Romance languages 8. The verb in indirect speech in Old French: System in change (by Bauer, Brigitte L.M.) 9. Modal patterns of direct and indirect discourse in Peninsular Spanish: An analysis within the framework of speech act typology (by Haverkate, Henk) 10. Reported speech in Latin (by Bolkestein, A. Machtelt) 11. Tense in (free) indirect discourse in French (by Landeweerd, Rita) 12. 3. Germanic languages 13. Reported speech in Swedish (by Perridon, Harry) 14. Modality of verb forms in German reported speech (by Cate, Abraham P. ten) 15. Tense and temporal ordering in English and Dutch indirect speech (by Boogaart, Ronny) 16. Tense in reported speech and its frame of reference (by Janssen, Theo) 17. Sequence of tenses in English and Bengali (by Wurff, Wim van der) 18. 4. Chinese 19. Free indirect speech in Chinese (by Hagenaar, Elly) 20. Index