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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"quotatives"”.
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Origin and Development of the Indo-Aryan Quotatives and Complementizers: An Areal Approach
… degree to which Indo-Aryan complementizers and quotatives can be attributed to outside influences (Persian and Dravidian, respectively) or internal developments. I determine that Persian influence is responsible for the spread of complementizers throughout much of Indo-Aryan. However, the …
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And then I was like, “No way!”: A variationist study of be like in young Cape Town speech
… systems in Cape Town. In this study, 1791 quotatives, collected from 64 sociolinguistic interviews, are analysed to assess the use of be like in contrast with older quotative verbs, as well as how the use of different quotatives is constrained by local social and linguistic variables. The …
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Discourse-Pragmatic Features in English and Spanish Among Bilinguals
… equivalents como, como que, and like in Spanish, quotatives, and general extenders. It was expected that these discourse-pragmatic features would be highly permeable in the speech of these bilinguals; however, contact with English did not radically influence the use of any of these …