http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001644.html Mark Liberman's just posted on quotative (and other uses of) like, go, and all. As it happens, Stanford has a modest department project going on innovative uses of all, and I can offer some bibliography on quotatives.... en-us http://mattweiner.net/blog/archives/000401.html I sometimes kick around the idea that in Davidson's famous analysis of indirect speech, we should replace the notion of samesaying with the notion of likesaying. That is, "X said that P" will be analyzed as "X said something that...