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Studies in LanguageVol. 4:3 (1980) ► pp.379–409
The Tag as a Parenthetical
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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