English Subjectless Tagged Sentences  

Oleh:

Kay, Paul

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language (ada di JSTOR) vol. 78 no. 3 (2002), page 453-481.
Fulltext: Vol. 78, No. 3, pp. 453-481.pdf (624.99KB)

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A colloquial English sentence like Fooled us, didn't they? contains a finite main verb but no expressed subject. The identity of the missing subject of fooled is recovered from the tag subject they: compare Fooled us, didn't she?, Fooled us, didn't you? This article argues (1) that such subjectless tagged sentences (STSs) pose a problem for grammatical approaches based on move- ment and empty categories and (2) that STSs receive a revealing analysis as part of a finely articulated family of tagged sentence constructions when viewed within a nonderivational, con- structional, multiple-inheritance-based approach.*

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