This chapter addresses the question how semantically non-reportative and grammatically intransitive verbs such as be (like) and go could come to be used in English quotative constructions. It rejects analyses which evoke the notion of ‘reporting verb’ or, for like, of complementizer, and argues instead for an interclausal analysis in which clauses such as I’m like or he went as a whole are analysed as conceptually dependent on a complement clause. This analysis of the combinatorics involved in these constructions helps to explain their emergence as an analogical process in which ‘imitation clauses’ are apprehended as ‘reporting clauses’, and invites a reassessment of the extent to which this initial innovation and its further developments constitute a case of ‘grammaticalization’.
GARDNER, MATT HUNT, DEREK DENIS, MARISA BROOK & SALI A. TAGLIAMONTE
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VANDELANOTTE, Lieven
2020. (Non-)quoting and subjectivity in online discourse. E-rea 17.2
Vandelanotte, Lieven
2023. Constructions of speech and thought representation. WIREs Cognitive Science 14:2
Cherniukh, Bohdan
2019. MARKERS OF THE DIRECT SPEECH IN ROMAN POETRY OF THE AUGUSTAN PERIOD (ON “METAMORPHOSES” BY OVID). Studia Linguistica :15 ► pp. 277 ff.
Lou, Adrian
2017. Multimodal simile. English Text Construction 10:1 ► pp. 106 ff.
Buchstaller, Isabelle
2015. Exploring linguistic malleability across the life span: Age-specific patterns in quotative use. Language in Society 44:4 ► pp. 457 ff.
D’Arcy, Alexandra
2015. Quotation and Advances in Understanding Syntactic Systems. Annual Review of Linguistics 1:1 ► pp. 43 ff.
Secova, Maria
2015. Discours direct chez les jeunes : nouvelles structures, nouvelles fonctions. Langage et société n° 151:1 ► pp. 131 ff.
LACAZE, Grégoire
2014. Yann Fuchs, Les quotatifs en interaction en anglais contemporain. E-rea :11.2
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2013. Quotation across the Generations: A Short History of Speech and Thought Reporting. In Quotatives, ► pp. 148 ff.
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2013. Introduction: What's New about the New Quotatives?. In Quotatives, ► pp. 1 ff.
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2013. You Can Quote Me On That: Defining Quotation. In Quotatives, ► pp. 34 ff.
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