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wh-movement

feature of some languages in which interrogatives are moved to a different place in a sentence than an answer would go
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🏷️ Also known as
en wh-movement en wh-raising en wh-extraction en wh-fronting da hv-bevægelse de Rattenfängerkonstruktion es movimiento Qu- fr déplacement QU- ja wh移動 nl W-beweging zh 疑問詞移位
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Summary

wh-movement is a phenomenon[1].

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linguistics

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  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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