quotative
quotative · quotatives
A grammatical device to mark quoted speech, such as be like in "he was like, 'who are…A grammatical device to mark quoted speech, such as be like in "he was like, 'who are you?'".
Meaning
2 sensesA grammatical device to mark quoted speech, such as be like in "he was like, 'who are you?'".
A form of the complementizer related to the verb say, found in many languages of West Africa and South Asia.
Forms
plural: quotatives| Singular | quotative |
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regular
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.