English subjectless tagged sentences

被引：14
作者：
Kay, P [1 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Linguist, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
来源：
LANGUAGE | 2002年 / 78卷 / 03期
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D O I：
10.1353/lan.2002.0161
中图分类号：
H0 [语言学];
学科分类号：
030303 ; 0501 ; 050102 ;
摘要：
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 footed 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 movement 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, constructional, multiple-inheritance-based approach.*
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