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Author(s) -
Angelika Kiss
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
proceedings of the linguistic society of america
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2473-8689
DOI - 10.3765/plsa.v6i1.4960
Subject(s) - presupposition , proposition , linguistics , subject (documents) , computer science , source text , data source , communication , psychology , philosophy , world wide web , information retrieval
In this paper I argue that when question tags such as huh? in (North American) English, eh? in Italian and mi? in Hungarian follow a declarative anchor, they are subject to special contextual constraints. They convey that the speaker perceives the addressee to be a source for p, the proposition conveyed by the anchor, and in addition, the presupposition that the speaker herself is a source for the addressee being a source for p.