quotative (English, noun)
expansion: quotative (plural quotatives)
Senses:
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glosses: A grammatical device to mark quoted speech, such as be like in "he was like, 'who are you?'".
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glosses: A form of the complementizer related to the verb say, found in many languages of West Africa and South Asia.
Forms:
form: quotatives
tags: plural