A-not-a questions in Taiwanese Southern Min

This paper presents a comparative study on the A-NOT-A questions in Mandari n and Taiwanese Southern Min. A dialectal investigation is conducted in the city of Hsinchu to grasp the patterns of A-Not-A questions in Taiwanese So uthern Min. The survey turns up a range of divergent grammatical patterns o f these questions as well as other related linguistic features that are clo sely correlated with the age factors as manifested in the discrepancy betwe en the older and younger generation. The linguistic behavior of the younger people as native speakers of Taiwanese Southern Min shows signs of nascent change under the burgeoning influence of Mandarin.