Open AccessReported direct speech in Dutch
Author(s) -
Mark de Vries
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
linguistics in the netherlands
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.15
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1569-9919
pISSN - 0929-7332
DOI - 10.1075/avt.23.21vri
Subject(s) - linguistics , indirect speech , direct speech , computer science , speech recognition , psychology , philosophy
The part between quotation marks is called the quote, the rest is the reporting clause. From (1) it is clear that quotes can be sentence-initial, discontinuous, or sentence-final. One of my conclusions will be that the quote-final construction (1c) is fundamentally different from the other two. Quotative constructions are not restricted to high-frequent reporting verbs such as zeggen ‘say’ and vragen ‘ask’. A large number of verbs (>500) are acceptable, depending on the context. Some examples are given in (2):
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