Nonquotative
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Nonquotative is an adjective meaning Not quotative.
Meaning
Not quotative.
Example Sentences
It is also questionable whether phrases in compounds are always truly quotations, and whether they are always fully encapsulated. Pafel (2015) distinguishes quotative phrasal compounds from nonquotative ones, with the latter including examples like a slept-all-day look.
A further wrinkle in the traditional analysis of quotative clause as direct object is that the verbs used to introduce quotation are not always transitive. Think, hear, laugh, scream, yell, whisper and the like are either variably transitive or indisputably intransitive in their nonquotative uses, whereas others such as be and feel are clearly predicative […]
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include non-quantified, unquotable, nonentitative, nonattributive, nonenumerative, unquantitative.
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