quotativeness
nounEtymology From quotative + -ness.
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Quality of being quotative.
- Third, while there are a lot more verbs of saying that^([sic]) there are of asking, the same relationship between quotativeness and embedding obtains with that as obtained with if: […]1978, Dwight Bolinger, “Yes—No Questions Are Not Alternative Questions”, in Henry Hiż, editor, Questions (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy; volume 1), →DOI, →ISBN, page 94: