Tag Questions and Grammatical Acceptability
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20377666 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jaakko Hintikka (0000-0001-7354-6213, Florida State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 129-132 |
| Publication date | 1982-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nordic Journal of Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0332-5865 • E-ISSN: 1502-4717 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0332586500000871 |
| OpenAlex | W2104639487 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Recent grammars rule out uninverted tag questions (unnegated tag questions when the main clause is also unnegated and vice versa ) as ungrammatical. It is argued that the inversion is merely a conversational phenomenon which is not always required. Linguists requiring inversion have been misled by their “intuitions”, which cast general doubts on their role in recent linguistic theorizing
Epistemology · Linguistics · Phenomenon · Rule-based machine translation · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Philosophy · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2020 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |