Zhang Min.2000.Syntactic Change in Southeastern Mandarin

Based on field data comprising one hundred and eight diapoints in more than forty prefectures in Jiangsu and Anhui Provinces, this paper is a comprehensive study of the neutral question forms used in Southeastern Mandarin dialects. It describes in detail (1) general features, especially the syntactic configurations of the neutral questions in these dialects; (2) the patt..