quotativity
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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)."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷ- Proto-Indo-European *kʷó- Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *kʷótider. Proto-Italic *kʷot Latin quot Latin quotus Medieval Latin quotāreder. Old French coterbor. Middle English quoten English quote Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English -ative English quotative Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English quotativity From quotative + -ity.