Asking and Answering Asi Polar Questions

This study investigates the ways of asking and answering polar questions in Asi (ISO 639-3 code: bno). The findings reveal that Asi polar questions generally have a rising intonation and a declarative structure, and at times use interrogative particles. Yes-no questions can be answered by polarity, echo, echo/truth, non-echo, or mixed systems. The same is the case with existential questions, having only the presence of a truth system but without a mixed system. Confirmation questions are answered by truth, echo/truth, and non-echo systems. As the study is based on a corpus, it should be noted that there are other potential structural formations of Asi polar questions and the answers to them. Other mixed-system answers are also possible. This paper is an expansion of an earlier study on Asi polar questions.