European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine

Abstract

The article deals with tag-questions from the dialogue texts of “Ivanhoe” and “The Talisman” written by Walter Scott, a famous novelist. The diversity of the constructions with question tags, so-called canonical and non-canonical, is under analysis; the lexical and grammatical peculiarities of the constructions are shown. In the article there is a comparison of the tag-questions from “Ivanhoe” and “The Talisman” with similar structures from the drama dialogic texts of Renaissance period (circa 1485-1650) and from the texts written by W. Scott coevals during the period 1770s – 1830s. The author’s stylistic devices of using contemporary syntax and archaic ways of word change are discussed