Like the standard spoken Chinese,the interrogative sentences of Gaoling dialect are also divided into special questions,yes-or-no questions,repeatedly questions and alternative questions,but they have different structure.

The syntactic structures of alternative questions in the Song Dynasty can be classified into the Model of , the Model of , and the Model of .

Based on the materials from an exhaustive investigation of the four books written in Ming and Qing Dynasties, this article discusses the functional characteristics of alternative questions in these two dynasties Chinese and in particular analyses the distribution and its rule of questions and rhetorical questions.

The alternative questions of Chinese undertook significant changes during Middle Ages (the period from Eastern Han(汉) to Sui Dynasty(隋)).

In this paper a special aspect of alternative questions is discusse d.

According to its classification and based on the particular examples both in English and Chinese,selective question sentence is analyzed in terms of forming theory,prototype,figure-ground theory,perspective and other aspects,aiming to in some measure reflect the cognitive process of applying and understanding the language.

The paper holds that it is proper to use a question mark at the end of the first part of an alternative question,but it is questionable to include this part in an alternative question or an alternative question group,so it should be treated as a unit between sentence and sentence group in a hierarchical system,which can be termed as "textual clause".

The syntactic properties of va can be accounted for if a va question is analyzed as an AB-not-A question,with va playing the role of negative and interrogative morpheme at the same time.