diff --git a/se/se_epub_lint.py b/se/se_epub_lint.py
index 7a277ba1..31cd11be 100644
--- a/se/se_epub_lint.py
+++ b/se/se_epub_lint.py
@@ -431,6 +431,7 @@
 "t-074", "Extended sound using hyphen-minus [text]-[/] instead of non-breaking hyphen [text]‑[/]."
 "t-075", "Word in verse with acute accent for scansion instead of grave accent."
 "t-076", "Grapheme or phoneme not italicized. Hint: Dialect with missing letters should mark missing letters with [text]’[/]."
+"t-077", "Punctuation followed by opening quotation."
 
 
 XHTML
@@ -2812,6 +2813,10 @@ def _lint_xhtml_typography_checks(filename: Path, dom: se.easy_xml.EasyXmlTree,
 	if nodes:
 		messages.append(LintMessage("t-076", "Grapheme or phoneme not italicized. Hint: Dialect with missing letters should mark missing letters with [text]’[/].", se.MESSAGE_TYPE_WARNING, filename, nodes))
 
+	nodes = dom.xpath("/html/body//text()[re:test(., '[:;!\\?][“‘]')]")
+	if nodes:
+		messages.append(LintMessage("t-077", "Punctuation followed by opening quotation.", se.MESSAGE_TYPE_WARNING, filename, nodes))
+
 	return (messages, missing_files)
 
 def _lint_xhtml_xhtml_checks(filename: Path, dom: se.easy_xml.EasyXmlTree, file_contents: str, local_css_path: str) -> list: