In linguistics, wh-movement (also known as wh-fronting, wh-extraction, or wh-raising) is the formation of syntactic dependencies involving interrogative...
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of English ⟨wh⟩ wh-word, a name for an interrogative word such as where and when wh-movement, a syntactic phenomenon involving such words wh-question, a...
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various syntactic contexts, including passive voice, wh-movement, and sluicing. Wh-movement—which involves wh-words like who, what, when, where, why and how—is...
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American Sign Language grammar (section Lillo-Martin & Fischer's, and Petronio's leftward wh-movement analysis)
presented by the Leftward Wh-movement analysis are: That the spec-CP is on the left, that the wh-movement is leftward, and that the final wh-word in a sentence...
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Locality (linguistics) (section Wh-movement)
this is regulated by binding theory Displacement of wh-phrases; this is regulated by wh-movement The projection principle requires that lexical properties...
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cross-lingual grammatical phenomenon affecting interrogative words is called wh-movement. Before rounded vowels, such as /uː/ or /oː/, there was a tendency, beginning...
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Crossover effects (section Wh-movement)
traditional transformational analysis of sentences containing leftward movement (e.g. wh-movement, topicalization), whereby it appears as though the fronted constituent...
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Minimalist program (section Medumba wh-movement)
sentence (2a), the wh-phrase á wʉ́ moves from the vP phase to the CP phase. To obey PIC, this movement must take two steps since the wh-phrase needs to move...
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Wh-agreement refers to morphological changes triggered by wh-movement, usually in verbs or complementisers. It occurs in a number of Bantu languages,...
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Echo question (section Range of wh-substitution)
Echo questions have unusual syntactic properties (including a lack of wh-movement), which have made them a challenge to account for in linguistic theories...
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