Questions - 1

This one's pretty short, I guess, but oh well.

Elessic forms questions using Interrogative Particles, like the Esperanto "ĉu," or the Japanese "ka."

Like "ĉu," Elessic Interrogative Particles go at the beginning of the sentence and need no alteration to syntax.

Elessic has three Interrogative Particles:

dast - Forms a question with no special indication of an expected answer, or a non-yes/no.
dɪst - Forms a question that the speaker thinks (or hopes) will be answered with "No."
dust - Forms a question that the speaker thinks (or hopes) will be answered with "Yes."

The variation is inspired by something I read about forming questions in Latin.

One can think of the differences as this:

"Are you mad?"
"You're not mad, are you?"
"You're mad, aren't you?"

Subtle, but important. This also helps disambiguate the old terror of language-learning, negatively-formed questions. Rather than tangling with negatives to indicate a desired or expected response, it's all reduced to the neutral form ("Are you mad?"), with the other flavorings being implied, but not grammatically altering.

The particles are probably related to the archaic English "dost," as in "dost thou?" But they also are descended from bisyllabic forms which I shortened because I decided I didn't need two syllables to ask a question.

As for words like "whether," I'll get to those later.