wh-movements

A form of wh-movement — 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.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of wh-movement
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