An utterance complement is a complement clause which attributes an utterance to some speaker. In many languages, the class of introducing verbs include <i>say, tell,</i> and the like (Cristofaro 2008). 

<br><br>A language will be said to have <b>switch reference</b> utterance complements if there exists a construction where the point of view changes between the introducing clause and the complement clause. An example is the English sentence <i><b>John</b> said, ´´<b>I</b> will go</i>,´´ where <i>John</i> and <i>I</i> refer to the same person. In the complement clause, the point of view is understood relative to the introducing clause, rather than the present speaker of the sentence. 

<br><br><b>Note</b>: Many languages have several strategies for introducing utterance complements. For these languages, each property should be valued ´yes´ independent of the other properties. 

<br><br><b>References</b><br>
Cristofaro, Sonia. 2008. Utterance Complement Clauses.
In Haspelmath et al. (2008), chapter 128. Available online at <a href=â€http://wals.info/feature/128â€> http://wals.info/feature/128</a href>. 
