“…Although an extensive number of studies have been devoted to the investigation of tag questions in Peninsular Spanish, (Fuentes Rodrí guez, 1990a, 1990b, 2014Blas Arroyo, 1995;Martí n Zorraquino, 1998a, 1998bGarcí a Vizcaí no, 2005, Montañez Mesas, 2008Brenes Peña 2011;Molina Martos, 2016), research on the functioning of these discursive units in American Spanish varieties has received fragmented attention. Only a few varieties have been investigated in any detail, i.e., Argentinian Spanish (Boretti, 1999) Chilean Spanish (Urzúa Carmona, 2006;San Martí n, 2011;Gille, 2013Gille, , 2015 Ecuadorian Spanish (Fuentes Rodrí guez, Placencia & Palma-Fahei, 2019) and Mexican Spanish (Orozco, 2014). While the investigation of the other varieties is non-existent.…”