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Tag questions in English represent a structure that, by being added to the preceding clause, questions or verifies its content. Despite their wide usage, little has been said about the grammatical source of tag questions. Tag questions are essentially divided into two classes; the regular tag (e.g., did/didn’t she?) and the cleft tag (e.g., is/isn’t it?). Among the two available types of tag, Barros & van Craenenbroeck (2013) extensively studied the tag preference, claiming that the cleft tag is the default one (named as Default Non-Isomorphism). By contrast, the results of our acceptability judgment tasks showed that the regular tag in fact is the favored one, with the use of the cleft tag being sensitive to the focused/adjacent element of the host clause. Namely, the cleft tag is preferred only when a sufficient amount of focus is present. This finding is empirically attested in assorted conditions involving the two types of tag questions. Examined conditions principally varied by the referent of the fragment answer preceding the tag question at stake (i.e., whether the fragment is referring to the subject or object of the forgoing sentence). In addition, the presence/absence of the polarity answer particle (i.e., yes or no) anteceding the tag question was tested.

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I. Introduction
II. Previous Analysis
2.1 Previous analysis: Barros and van Craenenbroeck (2013)
III. Experiment and Results
IV. Towards an Analysis
4.1 Brief excursion to focus anchors followed by cleft tags
4.2 PAP-only answers and tags
4.3 Providing an analysis for the basic paradigm
V. Extension: Right-dislocated/Stripped Fragments and Tags
VI. Conclusion
Works Cited
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저자

• Kim, Jaejun [ Dongguk University ]
• Jung, Philip Yoongoo [ Dongguk University ]
• Park, Myung-Kwan [ Dongguk University ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

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  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810