wh-movement
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English[edit]
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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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Etymology[edit]
Most English interrogative words start with wh-, for example, who, whom, whose, what, which, when, where, why, etc. (though how is an exception).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌdʌbəlju ˈeɪtʃ ˌmuvmənt/
Noun[edit]
wh-movement (countable and uncountable, plural wh-movements)
- (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.
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Translations[edit]
special order in interrogative sentences
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Further reading[edit]
- wh-movement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia