Wh-Feature Attraction and Affix Particles in Tao Te Ching

In this paper, the wh-questions in the bamboo slips, the silk manuscripts and the handed-down traditional version of Tao Te Ching are described respectively, and the syntactic features of the wh-questions can be accounted for by the Interrogative Feature Attraction Hypothesis. The author, in light of the syntactic behavior of the question particles in the three versions of Tao Te Ching, comes up to the conclusion that question particles are sentential affixes in nature, and as a result, the Interrogative Feature Attraction Hypothesis is finally revised.