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Tag Questions and Grammatical Acceptability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

Jaakko Hintikka
Jaakko Hintikka
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, FSU, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA.
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Abstract

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.

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Research Article
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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , December 1982 , pp. 129 - 132
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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