Tag Question
Definition:
A tag question is a constituent that is added after a statement in order to request confirmation or disconfirmation of the statement from the addressee. Often it expresses the bias of the speaker toward one answer.
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Examples:
(English, German, French)
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The English isn’t he?, as in the following sentence:
He’s a pleasant fellow, isn’t he?
- The German nicht wahr? ‘not true?’
- The French n’est ce pas? ‘is it not?’
Source:
This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library. Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.