wh-movement

短语

疑问词移位

发音

US /ˌdʌbəlju ˈeɪtʃ ˌmuvmənt/

词形变化

wh-movements 复数 wh-movements

释义与例句

n.
  1. 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.

    疑问词移位

    可数 不可数 语言学

词源

Most English interrogative words start with wh-, for example, who, whom, whose, what, which, when, where, why, etc. (though how is an exception).

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