A drift toward direct structures in Dutch direct mail sales letters
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Reported Direct Speech in Dutch
The part between quotation marks is called the quote, the rest is the reporting clause. From (1) it is clear that quotes can be sentence-initial, discontinuous, or sentence-final. One of my conclusions will be that the quote-final construction (1c) is fundamentally different from the other two. Quotative constructions are not restricted to high-frequent reporting verbs such as zeggen ‘say’ and ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Text & Talk
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1860-7349,1860-7330
DOI: 10.1515/text-2014-0017