In linguistics, wh-movement (also known as wh-fronting, wh-extraction, or wh-raising) is the formation of syntactic dependencies involving interrogative...

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...

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...

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...

this is regulated by binding theory Displacement of wh-phrases; this is regulated by wh-movement The projection principle requires that lexical properties...

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...

cross-lingual grammatical phenomenon affecting interrogative words is called wh-movement. Before rounded vowels, such as /uː/ or /oː/, there was a tendency, beginning...

traditional transformational analysis of sentences containing leftward movement (e.g. wh-movement, topicalization), whereby it appears as though the fronted constituent...

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...

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...

Echo questions have unusual syntactic properties (including a lack of wh-movement), which have made them a challenge to account for in linguistic theories...

Wh-agreement refers to morphological changes triggered by wh-movement, usually in verbs or complementisers. It occurs in a number of Bantu languages,...

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...

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...

term filler also has a separate use in the syntactic description of wh-movement constructions (see below). Every conversation involves turn-taking, which...

Spoken English. VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken. Chomsky, N. 1977. On wh-movement. In Culicover, P., Wasow, T., and Akmajian, A., editors, Formal Syntax...

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...

of wh-movement in Japanese is the most striking example of this. From the mid-1980s onwards, the standard analysis of wh-movement involved the wh-phrase...

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...

Stripping Subject-auxiliary inversion Subject-verb inversion Topicalization Tough movement Unaccusative verbs V2 word order Verb phrase ellipsis Wh-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...

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...

example, "John bought bread"). An example of an English wh-element that is not in situ (see wh-movement): "What did John buy?" In literature in situ is used...

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...

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...

without copula verbs). Question words in the language do not exhibit wh-movement. Vietnamese lexical categories (or "parts of speech") consist of: nouns...

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...

with Subject Verb Agreement, but also with Object Verb agreement in WH-movement in English. Take this ungrammatical construction: "Which flowers are...

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...

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)...