Ghost Story Poems Choice Questions And Non-questions

This article takes "Chats Room Folk tune Collection " as the language materials to give a comprehensive description of the optional interrogative sentence and right-wrong question in the basis of quantitative statistics. Comparing it with "Jin Ping Mei" and "Awakes World Marriage affinity Biography" which are novels in the vernacular of Shandong dialect between the period of Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty and various optional interrogative sentences and right-wrong questions in modern Chinese history,we want to find some important changes of optional interrogative sentence and right-wrong questions in modern Chinese history especially in the vernacular of Shandong dialect between the period of Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty.The first chapter focuses on "VP不曾" . "VP不VP" and "VP没VP" and so on the positive and negative optional interrogative sentence;The second chapter gives a comprehensive description of the compound optional interrogative sentence;The third chapter inquires into right-wrong questions in syntax and semantic type.The first chapter is about the positive and negative optional interrogative sentence.This sentence in "Chats Room Folk tune Collection " has ninety-two examples in all and its main forms are "VP不曾" . "VP不VP" and "VP没VP" .Among them, "VP不曾" has disappeared gradually because of the discinple of language economy and difference between written language and spoken language. In contemporary Chinese "没有" used in "VP没VP" takes the place of "没" gradually because of grammatical functions' separation, but in the vernacular of Shandong dialect "VP没" is used widely as the perfect aspect.This indicates that many language phenomena about spoken language in Yuan Dynasty has been preserved in the vernacular of Shandong dialect.In addition,we pay attention to verb complement construction, "好不好" interrogative sentence and the mandarin particle "呀" , "也" and "那" .