Tuesday 2 January 2024

Misrepresenting Polarity And Tag Potential

Martin (2013: 56-7):


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[1] To be clear, because of the unwarranted conditional marking, this network fails to account for either negative Mood Tags in negative clauses, such as So, he won't pay, won't he?, and negative exclamatives, such as How tidy you are…not!.

[2] To be clear, a realisation statement specifies the structural consequences of a systemic feature at the rank in question. If the feature 'tagged' is selected, the structural consequence is simply + Finite^Subject. Nominal and verbal group variation is accounted for at group rank, and is irrelevant to structure at clause rank.

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