wh-movement

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

a syntactic phenomenon found in many languages around the world, in which interrogative words (sometimes called wh-words) or phrases show a special word order. Unlike ordinary phrases, such wh-words appear at the beginning of an interrogative clause.

/ˌdʌbəlju ˈeɪtʃ ˌmuvmənt/

wh-movement wh-movements

Most English interrogative words start with wh-, for example, who, whom, whose, what, which, when, where, why, etc. (though how is an exception).

wh-extraction wh-fronting

wh-in-situ wh-island wh-word parasitic gap

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