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nonquotative

nonquotative adjective: not quotative.

Adjective

nonquotative (not comparable)

  1. Not quotative.
    • A further wrinkle in the traditional analysis of quotative clause as direct object is that the verbs used to introduce quotation are not always transitive. Think, hear, laugh, scream, yell, whisper and the like are either variably transitive or indisputably intransitive in their nonquotative uses...2015, Alexandra D'Arcy, “Quotation and Advances in Understanding Syntactic Systems”, in Annual Review of Linguistics, volume 1, →DOI, page 47
    • It is also questionable whether phrases in compounds are always truly quotations, and whether they are always fully encapsulated. Pafel (2015) distinguishes quotative phrasal compounds from nonquotative ones, with the latter including examples like a slept-all-day look.2018 March, Benjamin Bruening, “The lexicalist hypothesis: Both wrong and superfluous”, in Language, volume 94, number 1, →DOI, page 10

Origin of nonquotative

From non- + quotative.

Questions about nonquotative

What does nonquotative mean?
Nonquotative means not quotative.
What part of speech is nonquotative?
Nonquotative is an adjective.

Words near nonquotative in the dictionary

  1. nonquiet
  2. nonquinine
  3. nonquitter
  4. nonquitters
  5. nonquota
  6. nonquotative
  7. nonquoted
  8. nonquranic
  9. nonrabbinic
  10. nonrabbinical
  11. nonrabbit

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