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?’