Quotations and Quotatives

Abstract

This chapter introduces quotation (more precisely, direct and indirect speech) and quotatives in Slavic. The second category is defined here as a variety of strategies presenting a reported message as an utterance spoken or thought at a moment other than the current moment of speech, but formulated in the here-and-now by the current speaker and often signalled through particles. The chapter discusses several different approaches to these phenomena and illustrates them using corpus examples. It concludes with three complications in the classification and analysis of quotation and quotatives.