Associations to the word «Quotative»

Wiktionary

QUOTATIVE, noun. (linguistics) Form of the complementizer related to the verb say, found in many languages of West Africa and South Asia.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope