wh-movement (English, noun)
expansion: wh-movement (countable and uncountable, plural wh-movements)
Senses:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
syntax
glosses: 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.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: wh-movements
tags: plural