Quizzical Questions: Part 1
Questions are something that every language handles a bit differently. Let's handle the two types of questions, wh- questions and yes-no questions, one at a time. Yes-no questions are the simplest, with a response of 'yes' or 'no'. In some languages, you can respond by repeating the verb for yes and/or saying "I don't" for no. For example, Finnish does this but still has words for yes and no. Okay, how do you form these questions? One way to mark a yes no question is inversion. Swapping the order of the subject and the verb tells you that a question is being asked. One example is English! I am wearing glasses. Are you wearing glasses? This inversion is rare in OV languages but not in VO languages. Also note that the main verb, am, is being inverted, not the auxiliary verb wearing. Another way to go about yes-no questions is a question particle. These are more common in OV languages but appear in natural OV and VO languages. This could be a clitic...