Yes-no questions in PIE
From: C. Darwin Goranson
Message: 46903
Date: 2007-01-08
How were yes-no questions phrased in PIE? Was it based on word-order or
the addition of participles to make the sentance into a question?
For example, how would this be said (approximately) in Proto-Indo-
European:
"Is this house new?"
"Yes, I built it last summer."
"No, your father built it."