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quotative

The English word “quotative” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A grammatical device to mark quoted speech, such as be like in "he was like, 'who are you?'".
  2. A form of the complementizer related to the verb say, found in many languages of West Africa and South Asia.

adjective

  1. Serving to mark quoted speech.

Etymology

From quote + -ative.

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