Re: Communal/collaborative languages now possible at CALS

I'm done entering featural data for Esperanto
and am working on Toki Pona.

The "Polar Questions" feature from WALS doesn't
seem to have any option that fits Toki Pona:

http://wals.info/feature/description/116

TP marks yes/no questions by juxtaposing a normal
verb and the same verb negatived, e.g.

sina toki.
You're talking.

sina toki ala toki?
Are you talking?
you talk not talk?

I could sort of squeeze that into "question particle"
but "ala" is a general negative particle, not primarily
used for questions, or I could call it "interrogative
word order" but the WALS examples involve
fronting the verb.  This doesn't seem to be the
same thing.

Also, it seems as though "Prefixing vs. Suffixing
in Inflectional Morphology"  should have an
option for "No affixation".

And various questions re: relative clauses should
have an option for "No relative clauses".

For now I've left all those blank for Toki Pona.

--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/

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