quotative

Bedeutung (Englisch)

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.

Adj

Serving to mark quoted speech.

Konzepte

zitierende

Synonyme

quotative particle

thus