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Dictionary of language and linguistics 976questionA type of illocution that attempts to elicit particular information, typically in the form ofan answer. ( also interrogative)question tagtag questionQuichéMayan languagesquotativeSentence mood which characterizes sentence content as ‘known through hearsay’ andwhich therefore relieves the speaker of any responsibility for the accuracy of what wassaid. In many languages the quotative is its own morphological category; in otherlanguages other modal categories subsume the quotative function. Note, for example, theuse of the subjunctive in the English sentence Phil said he would dine with us tomorrowevening. ( also direct vs indirect discourse, evidentiality)ReferencesPalmer, F.R. 1986. Mood and modality. Cambridge.direct vs indirect discourse, evidentiality, modality