English Explanatory Dictionary

wh-in-situ

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The occurrence of a wh-word in its typical syntactic position when forming a wh-question.

Word forms

wh-in-situ

Etymology

Coined by American linguist Joseph E. Aoun in 1981.

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