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Volume 29, Issue 3
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Abstract

Abstract

In Dutch sentences like (‘I am going to move, said John’), the first part contains direct speech, that is followed by the reporting clause ‘said John’. The latter is a parenthetical and as such it can also be inserted in the middle of the quote: A remarkable feature of this type of sentences is that the reporting clause starts with subject-verb inversion (), which has been explained in previous literature as a consequence of the presence of a quotative operator. In Dutch, this operator can always be replaced by the word ‘so’: Contrary to previous accounts, I propose to view as a resumptive adverb and the reported direct speech construction as a left dislocation construction, which accounts for the inversion without having to adopt the presence of an underlying operator. Moreover, I argue that the possibility to use in the reporting clause indicates that the verbs/predicates in that clause are (used as) ‘spreek’ () verbs. As such they are intransitive, which explains why reporting clauses with obligatory transitive verbs but no object are nonetheless grammatical. The use of these verbs is also the source of the ‘literal’ () character of quoted speech.

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Keyword(s): left dislocation; parenthetical clause; quotative inversion; quotative operator; reported direct speech

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