Quotatives

quotative verbs and quotative inversion, on this blog and Language Log

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resources

Isa Buchstaller’s 2004 bibliography on quotatives: social and linguistic factors and grammaticalization.

(John R. Rickford, Isabelle Buchstaller, Thomas Wasow, & Arnold M. Zwicky). Intensive and quotative all: Something old, something new. American Speech 82.1.3-31 (2007). (link)

Isabelle Buchstaller, John R. Rickford, Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Thomas Wasow, & Arnold M. Zwicky). The sociolinguistics of a short-lived innovation: Tracing the development of quotative all across spoken and internet newsgroup data. Language Variation and Change 22.2.191-219 (2010).) (link)

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CP, 9/22/03: A ban on quotative inversion?:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000017.html

CP, 9/23/03: More on the quotative inversion conjecture:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000019.html

ML, 10/6/03: The awful New Yorker language?:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000028.html
quotative inversion

ML, 11/15/04: Seems like, go, all:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001642.html

AZ, 11 /15/04: I’m like, all into this stuff:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001644.html
on the Stanford all project

ML, 12/6/04: Overpermissive quotatives: grammar change or thesaurisizing?:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001691.html
unusual verbs in quotatives

GP, 12/19/04: Diagram this:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001734.html
quotative inversion

AZ, 9/28/07: Cartoon quotatives:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001644.html
quotative go, all, like

1/5/09: “X”, Y said, and VP:

“X”, Y said, and VP

1/18/09: Zombies and bogeymen:

Zombies and bogeymen


receding quotative all

1/30/09: On the Beverly Cleary trail:

On the Beverly Cleary trail


quotative inversion

2/1/09: A little more on quotative inversion:

A little more on quotative inversion

10/26/09: cuddliness:

cuddliness


quotative go

AZ, 10/29/09: Quotative inversion again:

Quotative inversion again

4/29/10: Dudetalk in the Arctic:

Dudetalk in the Arctic


cartoon with quotative like

GP, 6/9/1 0: Still no subject postposing at The New Yorker:

Still no subject postposing at The New Yorker

7/30/10: we need to talk, take 2:

we need to talk, take 2


quotative all like

12/26/10: Cee Lo’s memorable song of 2010:

Cee Lo’s memorable song of 2010


quotative like

6/16/13: Quotatives:

Quotatives


quotative like

GP, 2/6/15: Linguists get tough on promoting language change:

Linguists get tough on promoting language change


xkcd on Cukor-Avila on quotative like

2/7/15: Quotative moments:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/02/07/quotative-moments/
quotative like and all, and more

2/14/15: A forest of symbols in a time of love:

A forest of symbols in a time of love


Valentine card with quotative like and all

ML, 2/26/16: Ask Language Log: Is this a sentence?:

Ask Language Log: Is this a sentence?


“X”, Y said and VP

8/25/16: November 11th, 2014:

November 11th, 2014


#3 cartoon with anachronistic quotative like

10/15/16: Grammar nazi on the loose in the library:

Grammar nazi on the loose in the library


cartoon on like

12/23/16: And the art horse you rode in on:

and the art horse you rode in on


vivid quotative verbs; quotative inversion

3/15/17: Quotative all lives!:

Quotative all lives!