1.2.1. Polar interrogatives
Polar interrogatives are usually used to ask questions whose answers are expected to be either ‘yes’ or ‘no’. They have non-manual markers that distinguish them from content questions and these non-manual markers spread over the question completely or partially. Polar interrogatives can also have question particles.
Here is an example of a polar interrogative. Here and in the rest of the sub-sections of 1.2.1., the non-manual marker notation “y/n” refers to the bundle of non-manual markers in polar interrogatives.
y/n
understand ıx2
‘Do you understand?’
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