Meanings
- not comparableNot quotative.
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 101 more example
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, whereas others such as be and feel are clearly predicative […]
2015, Alexandra D'Arcy, “Quotation and Advances in Understanding Syntactic Systems”, in Annual Review of Linguistics, volume 1, →DOI, page 47
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Germanic*ne
- Proto-Indo-European*ís?
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁óynos
- Proto-Germanic*ainaz
- Proto-Germanic*nainaz
- Proto-West Germanic*nain
- Old Englishnān
- Middle Englishnon
- Old Englishnān
- Old Englishnān-
- Middle Englishnon-
- Englishnon-
- Proto-Indo-European*kʷ-
- Proto-Indo-European*kʷó-
- Proto-Indo-European*kʷóti
- Proto-Italic*kʷot
- Latinquot
- Latinquotus
- Medieval Latinquotāre
- Old Frenchcoter
- Middle Englishquoten
- Englishquote
- Englishquotative
- Englishnonquotative
Cite this entry
nonquotative. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonquotative
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