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quotative marker
a complementizer used with direct reports. Example: in Kobon ban nöp hagöp [yad ram arabin] a göp Who said to you, I am going home?, a is a quotative marker used with the direct report utterance complement yad ram arabin I am going home. Like the direct report strategy it accompanies, a quotative marker originates with utterance complement clause constructions but is extended to other complement clause constructions lower in the Binding Hierarchy. (Section 18.3.2)
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