A question is the startpoint for any exploration.
- What factors have caused Jianghuai and Wu dialects so different?
- What are the significant differences between Jianghuai dialect and Wu dialect? (on the aspects of forms and uses)
- How do the two dialects interacts and influence each other?
- When and how the two dialects were formed? (a diachronical study)
- What similarities do the two dialects share?
- What attitudes do the natives from the two area hold towards their dialects?
- What theories can be used or produced to explain various language phenomena in the two dialects?
- What phenomena in the two dialects can prove the insufficiency of certain theories?
- Which one of the two dialects have more social varieties? Why?
- How to protect and develop the two dialects as intangible cultural resources?