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Everything about Tag question
Sentence with a declarative or imperative clause followed by an interrogative element
A tag question is a construction in which an interrogative element is added to a declarative or an imperative clause. The resulting speech act comprises an assertion paired with a request for confirmation. For instance, the English tag question "You're John, aren't you?" consists of the declarative clause "You're John" and the interrogative tag "aren't you?" Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Tag questionA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: A functional model for the tag question paradigm: The case of invariable tag questions in English and PortugueseInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: HoraceThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The question of tag questions in women's speech: they don't really use more of them, do they?↓Cited 117 times
- Go sideways: InterrogativeA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Subject–auxiliary inversionA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A question inviting the listener to indicate agreement, formed by adding a "tag" word or expression to a statement.
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The question of tag questions in women's speech: they don't really use more of them, do they?↓
The Tag Question in British English
Tag-questions and tag-imperatives in English
Integrating Multi-level Tag Recommendation with External Knowledge Bases for Automatic Question Answering
Effects of tag usage on question response time
A Rule Based Question Answering System in Malayalam Corpus Using Vibhakthi and POS Tag Analysis
EXPERT RECOMMENDATION THROUGH TAG RELATIONSHIP IN COMMUNITY QUESTION ANSWERING
Here are the answers. What is your question? Bayesian collaborative tag-based recommendation of time-sensitive expertise in question-answering communities
🆕 Influential since 2022
A functional model for the tag question paradigm: The case of invariable tag questions in English and Portuguese
Ask and Ye shall be Answered: Bayesian tag-based collaborative recommendation of trustworthy experts over time in community question answering
K- Part’s Choice of Tag Question at the End of the TCU
TAG: Triple Alignment With Rationale Generation for Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering
A Study on the Korean Tag Question Category
📚 Books worth reading
HoracePierre Corneille · 1656- 📕Question tagsBritish Council · 1968
- 📕Tag Questions in ConversationDitte Kimps · 2018
- 📕Die Entstehung und rechtliche Natur des Memelstatuts und seine praktische Auswirkung bis zum heutigen TagThorsten V. Kalijarvi · 1937
- 📕Freiheit und Einheit, Liberalismus und deutsche FrageRastatter Tag zur Geschichte des Liberalismus (1st 1988) · 1989
Game Counselor's Answer Book for Nintendo PlayersThe Game Counselor, Inc. · 1991
On subject and themeRuqaiya Hasan, Peter Howard Fries · 1995- 📕Cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspectives on academic discourseEija Suomela-Salmi, Fred Dervin · 2009
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