A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Historical English Phraseology and the Extender Tag
Authors: Carroll Ruth
Publication year: 2008
Journal: Selim: Journal of the Spanish Society for Mediaeval English Language and Literature
Volume: 15
First page : 7
Last page: 37
Web address : http://www.unioviedo.es/SELIM/SELIM_PDF/SELIM15.pdf#page=13
Abstract
Extender tags are phrases such as and so forth, which have also been called set-marking tags, vague category identifiers, list extenders, general extenders and list completers. Overstreet, on the basis of a single token from 1818, asserts, “There is little doubt that … extenders have been part of the English language for many years” (1990: 6). In fact, extender tags can be found throughout the history of English. This paper surveys previous literature, and supplies new information about these multifunctional phrases, describing their semantic and syntactic behavioral characteristics as phraseologisms and collostructs. The paper thus provides a framework for their study within the context of phraseology, which allows the consideration of all variants, whether general or specific.
Extender tags are phrases such as and so forth, which have also been called set-marking tags, vague category identifiers, list extenders, general extenders and list completers. Overstreet, on the basis of a single token from 1818, asserts, “There is little doubt that … extenders have been part of the English language for many years” (1990: 6). In fact, extender tags can be found throughout the history of English. This paper surveys previous literature, and supplies new information about these multifunctional phrases, describing their semantic and syntactic behavioral characteristics as phraseologisms and collostructs. The paper thus provides a framework for their study within the context of phraseology, which allows the consideration of all variants, whether general or specific.
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