Morphology (only singulars given)Now, the lack of a polar question marker for the first person is kind of reasonable (although this would possibly make even more sense for, say, ergative subject congruence, as it seems more likely that a speaker would be aware of what transitive actions he is performing, and less certain regarding intransitive actions - 'am I going to die?', 'do I look unkempt?').
1p 2p 3p indicative -al -ta -nu polar q -- -tes -nes
However, sometimes you may want to ask a rhetorical question in the first person or a question about your future and so on, and that is where the fun begins. Possible approaches:
- Some kind of case marking (or adposition) marking: me-gen, lead-3pQ the army?
- Some kind of additional verb phrase: Is-3pQ me, lead-3pQ the strike? (in a language where the complement of 'to be' is marked as an object)
- Some other kind of additional verb phrase: lead-3pQ the strike, I am? Some devoted verb?
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