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wh-movement
wh-movement
English
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When the word bread is replaced with a wh-word in order to form a question, wh-movement occurs:
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Noun
wh-movement (uncountable)
- (syntax) 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.
Synonyms
- A'-movement
- wh-extraction
- wh-fronting
Related terms
- wh-in-situ
- wh-island
- wh-word
Translations
special order in interrogative sentences
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