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A quotative is a grammatical device to mark quoted speech in some languages, and as such it preserves the grammatical person and tense of the original utterance rather than adjusting it as would be the case with reported speech. It can be equated with "spoken quotation marks". In the English sentence :''John said, "Wow,"'' there is no word indicating that we are dealing with quoted speech. This is only indicated typographically. In Sinhala on the other hand, the equivalent sentence :''John Wow kiyalaa kivvaa'' has an overt indication of quoted speech after the quoted string ''Wow'', the quotative ''kiyalaa''. ==Dutch== In Dutch, the preposition ''van'' can be used to introduce direct speech: :''Ik zei er van Japie sta still'' (a line from a children's song〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=De Liedjeskit )〕). :I said, 'Japie Quotative ''van'' can be used in combination with a verb of speech, as in the above example, a noun designating something with message-carrying content, or a light verb, e.g. a copula (like for English quotative ''like''). In the specific colloquial combination ''zoiets hebben van'' (literally, "have something suchlike of"), the subsequent quoted speech conveys a (possibly unspoken) feeling: :''De ouders hadden zoiets van laten we het maar proberen, wie weet lukt het.'' :The parents were like, let's try it, who knows it will work. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Quotative」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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