出典:Wiktionary
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When the word bread is replaced with a wh-word in order to form a question, wh-movement occurs: |
Most English interrogative words start with wh-, for example, who, whom, whose, what, which, when, where, why, etc. (though how is an exception).
wh-movement (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 wh-movements)
出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/04/05 05:14 UTC 版)
Wh-movement (or wh-fronting or wh-extraction or A'-movement) is 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. The term wh-movement is because most English interrogative words start with wh-, for example, what, where, why, etc. The term wh-movement tends to be applied to similar word order permutations in languages other than English as well, even when the interrogative words of a given language do not start with wh- (though some authors use the term A'-movement to avoid confusion).