单词 | reportative |
释义 | reportativeadj.n. A. adj. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > rumour > [adjective] > rumoured flying1425 bruited1523 fameda1533 bruitish?1570 rumoured1592 rumorous1605 reportative1636 buzzed1820 1636 J. Trussell Contin. Coll. Hist. Eng. 151 Amongst others that were caught with these reportative engines; The Kentishmen swallowed downe the hooke. 2. Linguistics. That indicates or introduces reported speech. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > narration > direct speech > [adjective] > indirect oblique1860 indirect1866 verbatim1892 reportative1953 1953 W. K. Matthews Struct. & Devel. Russ. i. iii. 71 Such particles as -ли (interrogative), что за! (exclamatory), and де (‘reportative’) illustrate other, more limited, groupings. 1973 New Society 6 Sept. 580/2 Containing in fact only one four letter word used in a reportative context. 1975 Language 51 804 Normally, a sentence containing the quotative clitic translates with ‘one says’, ‘they say’, or ‘it is said’, i.e. a reportative verb having an unspecified subject. 2004 D. Kaufer et al. Power of Words ii. viii. 154 Weighting a verb with a longer continuation gives advantage to its serving a reportative function. B. n. Linguistics. With the: the use of markers indicating or introducing reported speech. Also as a count noun: a reportative marker. Cf. sense A. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > narration > direct speech > [noun] > indirect speech oratio obliqua1842 reported speech1846 reportative1950 the mind > language > speech > narration > direct speech > [noun] > quotative word or quotativeness quotative1893 reportative1950 quotativeness1957 1950 Archivum Linguisticum 2 73 The Reportative speaks of an action (event, etc.) as being reported and also expresses indirect speech. 1961 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 27 351/2 Peripherals II often occur preceding the verb, in which case some other word often occurs between the peripheral(s) and the verb, thus making the verb phrase discontinuous. heta nañe okařu (E + reportative + verb) much, it is said, he ate. 1989 Jrnl. Assoc. Teachers Japanese 23 211 The fourth chapter deals with..the reportatives -gena and -zyato. 2002 Language 78 600/2 Despite some earlier descriptions, the reportative should not be considered as encoding any validational notion. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1636 |
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