Can a change in word order mark polar questions? In order for a construction to trigger 1, there should be no other marker in the clause that signals polar interrogation, not even lack of finiteness compared to the affirmative. This excludes intonation, which may be different between questions and declarative statements.
Parecís (ISO 639-3: pab, Glottolog: pare1272).
Coded 1. Generally, in polar questions, the focused questioned argument is fronted and the verb is clause-final (Brandão 2014: 338).
Dryer, Matthew S. 2013a. Position of polar question particles. In Matthew S. Dryer & Martin Haspelmath (eds), The world atlas of language structures online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Dryer, Matthew S. 2013b. Polar questions. In Matthew S. Dryer & Martin Haspelmath (eds), The world atlas of language structures online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Brandão, Ana Paula Barros. 2014. A reference grammar of Paresi-Haliti (Arawak). Austin: University of Texas. (Doctoral dissertation.)
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