While research has mostly focused on the pragmatics of variable tag questions, fewer studies have explored invariable tags, either for their own sake or in contrast with other types within and across languages. It will be argued that questions are as much part question system a unified functional model needs to consider both order compare function-to-form mappings reveal language variation, wel...

We discuss three constructions which seem to modify the illocutionary force of an utterance: reverse-polarity tag questions [RP-tags] (1a), same-polarity tag questions [SP-tags] (1b), and non-interrogative rising intonation [NI-rise] (1c). Rising intonation is indicated with a question mark (“?”).1 Rising intonation on syntactically declarative sentences (1c) has been discussed in Gunlogson (20...

objective(s) human papillomavirus (hpv) infections are related to the genesis of various benign lesions and some malignant tumors, but no clear relationship has been identified so far between the subtypes of hpv and skin tag. materials and methods the present case-control study was designed to detect the existence of low risk and high risk hpv types in lesions of 50 patients with skin tag (case...

Tag clouds have become a frequently used interaction technique in the web in the past couple of years. Research has shown the influence of variables such as tag size and location on the perception of tag clouds. However, several questions remain unclear. First, little is know on how tag clouds are perceived visually and which search strategies users apply when looking for tags in a tag cloud. S...