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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syntactic movement (e.g. wh-movement or topicalization), and presents two challenges: The fact that there are two gaps but only one fronted wh-expression...
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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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Logical form (linguistics) (section Wh-movement)
rule called Quantifier Raising (QR), which explains that movement operations of wh-movement continue to operate on the level of LF, and each phrase continues...
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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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Pied-piping with inversion (redirect from Secondary wh-movement)
pied-piping with inversion as "secondary wh-movement". The phenomenon can be described as follows: the language has wh-movement. the language has pied-piping; that...
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theme construction is a result of NP movement, while the location and goal constructions are a result of wh-movement. This suggests that while both location...
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Cleft sentence (section Wh-cleft/Pseudo-cleft)
Spoken English. VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken. Chomsky, N. 1977. On wh-movement. In Culicover, P., Wasow, T., and Akmajian, A., editors, Formal Syntax...
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Operator (linguistics) (section Wh-operators)
generative grammatical theory. The following example is a case of so-called "wh-movement": 1. What did Bill say he wants to buy __ ? Here, "what" is an operator...
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term filler also has a separate use in the syntactic description of wh-movement constructions (see below). Every conversation involves turn-taking, which...
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with Subject Verb Agreement, but also with Object Verb agreement in WH-movement in English. Take this ungrammatical construction: "Which flowers are...
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Pied-piping (section Wh-clauses vs. relative clauses)
Pied-piping is most visible in cases of wh-fronting of information questions and relative clauses, but it is not limited to wh-fronting. It can also occur with...
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1: I, me, my, mine, you, your(s) 12b. Score of 6: Wh-pronouns (i.e. who, which, what, how) and wh-word + infinitive (i.e. I know what to do) Main verb...
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theoretical syntactician, he is known for his work on logical form and wh-movement. Aoun was the eighth highest-paid private college president in the country...
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X-bar theory (redirect from Affix movement)
(1986a) assumes that the landing site of wh-movement is the specifier position of CP (Spec-CP). Accordingly, the wh-question What did John eat?, for example...
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Verb–object–subject word order (section p-movement)
like wh-movement, topicalization, and relativization. No other arguments, such as the internal arguments or VP adjuncts, may undergo such movement. Since...
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Empty category (section WH-trace (tWH))
phrases. Wh-items undergo Wh-movement to the specifier of CP, leaving a Wh-trace (tWH) in its original position. Just like for DP-movement, this movement is...
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without copula verbs). Question words in the language do not exhibit wh-movement. Vietnamese lexical categories (or "parts of speech") consist of: nouns...
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Sluicing (section Movement approach)
interrogative clauses. The ellipsis is introduced by a wh-expression, whereby in most cases, everything except the wh-expression is elided from the clause. Sluicing...
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with them when brought to the front, as part of the phenomenon called Wh-movement. For example, in "For whom are the pictures?", the word "for" is pied-piped...
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and aspect. Questions are marked by do-support, wh-movement (fronting of question words beginning with wh-) and word order inversion with some verbs. Some...
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Stripping Subject-auxiliary inversion Subject-verb inversion Topicalization Tough movement Unaccusative verbs V2 word order Verb phrase ellipsis Wh-movement...
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appears in wh-questions, which suggests that the equative shown in (18) involves wh-movement. In (19), deletion applies in conjunction with wh-movement. (17)...
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