Source tags

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v6i1.4960

Keywords:

tag questions, huh?, eh?, mi?, commitment, presupposition, sourcehood, evidentiality strategy, conversational scoreboard, English, Italian, Hungarian

Abstract

In this paper I argue that when question tags such as huh? in (North American) English, eh? in Italian and mi? in Hungarian follow a declarative anchor, they are subject to special contextual constraints. They convey that the speaker perceives the addressee to be a source for p, the proposition conveyed by the anchor, and in addition, the presupposition that the speaker herself is a source for the addressee being a source for p.

Author Biography

  • Angelika Kiss, University of Toronto
    graduate student at the department of linguistics

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Published

2021-03-20

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 1 (2021): Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America

Section

Articles

License

Published by the LSA with permission of the author(s) under a CC BY 4.0 license.

How to Cite

Kiss, Angelika. 2021. “Source Tags”. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 6 (1): 354–368. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v6i1.4960.