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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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