Developing a Comparative Model of Predicted Associations for Invariable Question Tag Types in British English and European Portuguese

Purificação Silvano; María Ángeles Gómez González

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-46602-1

Developing a Comparative Model of Predicted Associations for Invariable Question Tag Types in British English and European Portuguese

Purificação Silvano
María Ángeles Gómez González

Libro:

Constructional and Cognitive Explorations of Contrastive Linguistics

Editorial: Springer

ISBN: 9783031466014, 9783031466021

Año de publicación: 2024

Páginas: 173–214

Tipo: Capítulo de Libro

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-46602-1 GOOGLE SCHOLAR Acceso abierto editor

Resumen

The present chapter scrutinises invariable question tags in British English and European Portuguese from a contrastive point of view. Most previous research focuses on variable question tags and, if contrastive, compares other languages. This study shows that invariable question tags are more frequent and varied in European Portuguese than in British English. Furthermore, the results reveal that, while some invariable question tags appear across the two languages, others are registered only in one of them, despite the existence of equivalent expressions in the other. Additional asymmetries emerge concerning linguistic features of invariable question tags across the two languages. Based on the significant correlations between invariable question tags and their features, a model of predicted associations is put forward.