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Mandarin YES-NO QUESTIONS

In this video, we talk about YES-NO questions in Chinese, and show how all such questions are derived from the V-NOT-V pattern. We explain also how to answer such questions in the affirmative and in the negative, and how competing Northern Mandarin (Beijing) vs Southern Mandarin (Nanjing) patterns have given rise to variation in the question format. We explain the difference between “bu” and “mei”, and show how grammaticalization of V-NOT-V forms has created the question particle “ma” and the complementizer “shifou”. 00:00 Question types 01:27 Words for YES and NO 01:54 How to answer a YES-NO question 03:01 The V-NOT-V question format 04:28 Questions with disyllabic verbs 06:15 Questions with VERB-OBJ constructions 06:50 Northern vs Southern question patterns 09:12 The negators BU and MEI 10:14 The question particle MA 11:34 The formal mechanism SHIFOU #chineselanguage #chinesegrammar #syntax #grammar #mandarin #mandarinchinese #questions #polarity