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Tag questions in English translations from Swedish and Norwegian. Are there differences? This study first compares the frequencies of tag questions in original English texts and English translated texts using data from the fiction parts of the English-Swedish Parallel Corpus and the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus. It then compares the frequencies of tag questions in English texts translated from Swedish and Norwegian. A large difference was found. The sources of the tag question translations in the Swedish and Norwegian original texts were then examined to discover reasons for this difference between these two closely related languages. It is suggested that this is because Norwegian, unlike Swedish, has inflected tag questions and more often uses right-dislocated elements and declarative questions