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wh-movements

wh-movements is the plural of wh-movement.

Meaning of wh-movement

Noun

wh-movement (countable and uncountable, plural wh-movements)

  1. 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.
    Synonyms:
    wh-extraction, wh-fronting

Questions about wh-movements

What is wh-movements the plural of?
Wh-movements is the plural of wh-movement.

Words near wh-movements in the dictionary

  1. wh- questions
  2. wh-in-situ
  3. wh-island
  4. wh-islands
  5. wh-movement
  6. wh-movements
  7. wh-question
  8. wh-questions
  9. wh-word
  10. wh-words
  11. wh@re

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