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.