Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being quotative.
1 more example
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 intertextuality discussed, for instance, in Reyes (1990).
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, page 35
Origin
- 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
- Englishquotativity
Cite this entry
quotativity. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quotativity
“quotativity.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quotativity. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “quotativity,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quotativity.
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