Inspired by Bresnan and colleagues' work on English syntactic variation, there have also been a few studies that apply a similar modeling approach to the study of syntactic variation in Chinese languages (Cantonese: Starr, 2015;Mandarin: Yao, 2014;Yao and Liu, 2010).
yao and colleagues (yao, 2014;yao and Liu, 2010) investigated both dative variation and BA-form variation in written Mandarin using data from the Academia Sinica corpus (Chen et al., 1996).