Journal article
Lone pronoun tags in Early Modern English: ProTag constructions in the dramas of Jonson, Marlowe and Shakespeare
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Recent research into right-dislocated pronouns has provided details of the form and functions of lone pronoun tag (ProTag) constructions in Present Day British English. In this article, we present the first systematic investigation of ProTag constructions in an earlier variety, Early Modern English. Using as our corpus the dramatic works of Jonson, Marlowe and Shakespeare – writers already known to make use of tag questions in their works – we identified and analysed ProTag constructions. Our...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- English Language and Linguistics Journal website
- Volume:
- 25
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 379 - 407
- Publication date:
- 2020-06-03
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-03-30
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1469-4379
- ISSN:
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1360-6743
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1098423
- Local pid:
- pubs:1098423
- Deposit date:
- 2020-04-02
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- Copyright holder:
- Mycock and Mission
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available from Cambridge University Press at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674320000209
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