quotative

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  1. Quoting; of the nature of quotation; noting quotation. The past tense takes a suffix, -GAn or -GAni, and appears to be used precisely like our own. Before the quotative, w Ansū'ga, this suffix takes the form of -añ, unless, as is barely possible, the latter is the continuative. Amer. Anthropologist, July–Sept., 1902, p. 398.

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  • One question from a Essex Ph.D student Phil Tipton was whether it was really insightful to divide the quotative and intensifier uses so clearly, when they may well exist on a kind of quotative continuum.
  • I think Phil's question was very insightful because the ever-popular like quotative is also an intensifier, and in fact all is even more common in the all like compound.
  • Mainly because I could not remember the linguistics term quotative go for this grammatical feature of the informal register in my own ideolect.
  • Basically, she discussed the various methods she and a team of linguists used to investigate the use of all as a quotative (1a) or an intensifier (1b).1) a. She was all, "Take your hands of my steering wheel."
 

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