quotative marker (str)

Type strategy
http://example.org/cx/hasExample ban nöp hagöp [yad ram arabin] a göp
Definition 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)
See section (in Croft 2022) 18.3.2
expressionOf utterance construction
Subtype of complementizer

Source

The Model of Comparative concepts for Constructicon Alignment (MoCCA; Lorenzi et al. 2024) proposes to connect constructions across and within languages using Comparative Concepts as a shared base of comparison. It adopts the set of Comparative Concepts provided by Croft (2022).

Croft, William. 2022. Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World’s Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/morphosyntax/1AAB4F5F9C553F675170DCA3F03F82E2#contents. (14 October, 2025).
Lorenzi, Arthur, Peter Ljunglöf, Ben Lyngfelt, Tiago Timponi Torrent, William Croft, Alexander Ziem, Nina Böbel, Linnéa Bäckström, Peter Uhrig & Ely E Matos. 2024. MoCCA: A Model of Comparative Concepts for Aligning Constructicons. In Proceedings of the 20th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation @ LREC-COLING 2024, 93–98. Torino, Italia: ELRA and ICCL. https://aclanthology.org/2024.isa-1.12/. (22 July, 2025).

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