The Tag as a Parenthetical

Knowles, John

doi:10.1075/sl.4.3.04kno

Article published In: Studies in Language
Vol. 4:3 (1980) ► pp.379–409

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The Tag as a Parenthetical

John Knowles | Simon Fraser University

Published online: 1 January 1980

https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.4.3.04kno

The marked syntactic similarities of English Tags and Parentheticals suggest that Tags themselves are a type of parenthetical. Based on this assumption a solution is proposed in which the properties of Tag form are accounted for in terms of certain non-transformational constraints required independently for parentheticals.

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