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Is There a Particle in Second Position for Polar Questions?
More than half the languages on the planet mark polar questions with a particle. 52 out of the 883 languages that they use for the polar question issue have a particle in second position to mark questions. Most often it is final, like in the Chinese instance,. Sometimes it's initial. Like Esperanto, which it's and Esperanto stole that idea from Polish. Barrowed. Whatever. And a non-trivial subset, put that particle in my favorite position, Wacharnagel position.