Wh-movement
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title:
Wh-movement
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In linguistics, wh-movement is the formation of syntactic dependencies involving interrogative words. An example in English is the dependency formed between what and the object position of doing in "What are you doing?". Interrogative forms are sometimes known within English linguistics as wh-words, such as what, when, where, who, and why, but also include other interrogative words, such as how. This dependency has been used as a diagnostic tool in syntactic studies as it can be observed to inte
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Moving question words to a different place in a sentence than an answer would go
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wh-movement
date created:
2005-02-26T12:20:25Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T15:20:48Z
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