[Syntax] Wh-Questions and Movement

[@pyjamas7227]

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[@saidoujaani1186]

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[@minhphatnguyen379]

Thank god you are here man!

[@MaggyGaucho]

Thanks for the tutorial !
I would like to know what the goal of a wh- movenent is.
Why is it neccessary ? And what do we do this for ?

[@backgdw4105]

I don't study syntax, but my guess is that the movement may be for emphasis. By emphasis, I mean the new info that one wishes to put emphasis on. English tends to use fronting to mark emphasis syntactically, like "John has lost his wallet" vs. "It is his wallet that John has lost".
Wh-questions is naturally used to seek out new information, which makes them +emphasis. Like in "What has John lost?" (+emphasis, +question)
The similar thing goes for exclamation too, because you need to mark emphasis for something that is new and beyond your expectation, like in "What a wallet John has lost!" (+emphasis, -question)
Some languages use particle to mark emphasis. For example Chinese uses "shi".
In Chinese, "John diu-le qianbao" means "John has lost his wallet." in English, while "John diu-de shi qianbao" means "It is his wallet that John has lost".
So basically, how a language marks emphasis is similar to how a language forms questions, as TrevTutor has mentioned: changing word order, or using a particle.

[@robertkrupinski183]

I love your series. I'm studying for my exam tomorrow and you really helped me understand some things. One question though: Our teacher at uni said that do-support moves from I head to C head. I see that you didn't do this. With your movement, the word order seems to be mixed up, e.g.: Who you do think John kissed instead of Who do you think John kissed.

[@Trevtutor]

Yeah, that happens, but I didn't show the movement. The focus in that final tree was more to show the "what" movement. We cover T->C "do" in the DO insertion video.

[@bkemer9807]

love your tutorials!

[@imonthenexstlevull7495]

Hi. Can you also make a video about A - Movement? Thank you! 🤗

[@ecekaya3701]

you are the best! thank you for your videos

[@rabiaismail3694]

what does the dp stands for?

[@navyaaaa01]

Determiner phrase

[@konstantinosstavrakas8594]

if there is another PP e.g. what do you think john cooked for lunch, where will the what be inserted

[@mr.markus3568]

The answer to this question is for instance I think John cooked x for lunch, so as you can see, x represents the thing cooked by John and when you ask a question, it undergoes a movement from its base-generation, which is near the verb cook and here is the progess:
What do you think John cooked for lunch?
these bracets show the movement.

[@antialwahabiyaa]

great man go ahead with more lessons

[@michellekgross5627]

an "easier" one: Y-movement, a dialectal difference that allows preposed prepositions

[@ambadesai3806]

Excellent videos, tq

[@marygriffith4376]

Hi, thanks for your video. My question is regarding subject questions. I understand wh movement, but what about inversion in the sentence who saw John?...for while who did John see has both partial inversion and wh movement, who saw John seems to have only wh movement.
Is this correct?

[@johnmccarthy7971]

true, there is no do-insertion in that sentence.

[@vEvelugu]

Don't in-situ questions have a [+WH] in their topmost C head?

[@oldisgold4800]

nice tutorials but plz give more examples

[@mandelbrotsugee]

How .about wh_movement in subordinate clause?

[@hudatreasure6923]

Is it true that anya is really old?
Who can explaine to me how can we draw a tree to this question please.

[@lra1806]

Thank u for this video. Can you help me with this sentence?
"Why Andy disliked his new boss"

[@omarmostafa2599]

What does cp,to,c, stand for

[@the_linguist_ll]

C = Complementizer
CP = Complementizer phrase
TP = Tense phrase

[@AyoubMega96]

thanks a lot

[@goicuon.soldout]

Anyone here can help me explain this sentence: What do you think they put in that soup?
Thank you so much

[@mkdiaries8306]

What is cp ,dp, tp?

[@the_linguist_ll]

Complementizer phrase, determiner phrase, tense phrase.

[@vophie]

yesterday is an adverb?

[@the_linguist_ll]

In some contexts, yes.

[@aaimasheikh-ep6ns]

What is DP?

[@Trevtutor]

Determiner Phrase. Some books may use NP instead.

[@lynemax6689]

nice video

[@oldisgold4800]

Hello, this is hamid i,d be thankful if you kindly help me in the ubderstanding of raising and control verb phrase structure and also of wh movement...and and the structure of interrogaive sentences starting with helping vetbs and also of negative sentences..plzzz plzz with examples and analysis ..my exam is on friday 05-01-2018...i will share my gmail id ..if you response positively..thanks in anticipation

[@Emilia-mq3xm]

Why dp is marked tj and not ti?

[@Emilia-mq3xm]

Because ti is to John and tj is you?