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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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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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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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1007/s10831-022-09242-6. Toma, Shivan (March 2020). "From Wh-Movement to Wh-In-Situ Acquisition of I-To-C Movement in English Interrogative Constructions by Kurdish...
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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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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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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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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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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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wh-movement, ellipsis (especially sluicing), and on wh-agreement (where she demonstrated that Chamorro shows overt morphological cues to Wh-movement)...
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W. H. Auden (redirect from WH auden)
Books. Archived from the original on 26 October 2017. Retrieved 10 May 2017. "WH Auden (1907–1973)". BBC History. 2014. Archived from the original on 11 March...
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over a long distance Topicalization is similar to wh-movement insofar as the constituents that can be wh-fronted can also be topicalized: a. Bill is living...
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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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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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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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