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quotativity

quotativity noun: the quality of being quotative.

Noun

quotativity (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being quotative.
    • What the dislocated tense conveys is that there is something special or unusual about the speaker's attitude to the event referred to. Normally, this is the hypothetical quality of the event; in this instance, we would suggest, the reference to the action has the quality of quotativity or...1994, Bill Richardson, “Deixis and Translation”, in Dónall P. Ó Baoill, editor, TEANGA, volume 14, Dublin: Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, →ISSN, archived from the original on 16 Apr 2024...

Origin of quotativity

From quotative + -ity.

Questions about quotativity

What does quotativity mean?
Quotativity means the quality of being quotative.
What part of speech is quotativity?
Quotativity is a noun.

Words near quotativity in the dictionary

  1. quotatious
  2. quotative
  3. quotatively
  4. quotativeness
  5. quotatives
  6. quotativity
  7. quote
  8. quote end quote
  9. quote mark
  10. quote marks
  11. quote mining

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