a complementizer used with direct reports. Example: in Kobon ban nöp hagöp [yad ram arabin] a göp 'Who said to you, [lit. 'I am going home'?'], a is a quotative marker used with the direct report utterance - complement yad ram arabin 'I am going home'. Like the direct report strategy it accompanies, a quotative marker originates with utterance complement clause constructions but is extended to other complement clause constructions lower in the Binding Hierarchy. (Section 18.3.2)