Quotative

A quotative (abbreviated QUOT) is a grammatical device to mark quoted speech in some languages, and as such it preserves the grammatical person and tense of the original utterance rather than adjusting it as would be the case with reported speech. It can be equated with "spoken quotation marks".

In the following English sentence:

John said, "Wow,"

,there is no word indicating that we are dealing with quoted speech. This is only indicated typographically. In Sinhala on the other hand, the equivalent sentence is:

John Wow kiyalaa kivvaa

This sentence has an overt indication of quoted speech after the quoted string Wow, the quotative kiyalaa.

In Dutch, the preposition can be used to introduce direct speech:

Quotative van can be used in combination with a verb of speech, as in the above example, a noun designating something with message-carrying content, or a light verb, e.g. a copula (like for English quotative like).

In the specific colloquial combination zoiets hebben van (literally, "have something suchlike of"), the subsequent quoted speech conveys a (possibly unspoken) feeling:

In English colloquial speech, forms of the verb are used as a quotative:

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