wh-movement
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (GA) IPA: /ˌdʌbəlju ˈeɪtʃ ˌmuvmənt/
wh-movement
- (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.
- wh-extraction
- wh-fronting
- wh-in-situ
- wh-island
- wh-word
- French: mouvement qu-
- Russian: перемеще́ние вопроси́тельных сло́в
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