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wh-movement in Russian

wh-movement in Russian

перемеще́ние вопроси́тельных сло́в
noun
(syntax) 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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