Wh- movement

Question 1

Wh-movement

Answer 1

Move a wh-phrase to the specifier of CP to check a [+WH] feature in C.

Question 2

Wanna-contraction

Answer 2

The contraction of want and to, which does not apply across a wh-trace.

Question 3

That-trace Effect

Answer 3

Movement of a wh-phrase from subject position in English is disallowed when that trace is preceded by the complementizer that.

Question 4

That-trace filter

Answer 4

*[cp THAT t …]

Question 5

Relative Clause

Answer 5

A CP that modifies a noun. These always have a “missing” element in them that corresponds to some kind of wh-element.

Question 6

Factive CLause

Answer 6

A clause that is the complement to a factive verb (know, claim, recall, etc.), or to a factive noun (knowledge, claim, fact, recollection, etc.)

Question 7

Operator (Op)

Answer 7

The wh-element in relative clauses without an overt wh-phrase.

Question 8

Restrictive Relative Clause

Answer 8

A relative clause that restricts the meaning of a noun as a modifier. Adjoined to D’.

Question 9

Island

Answer 9

A phrase that contains (dominates) the wh-phrase, and that you may not move out of.

Question 10

Minimal Link Condition (MLC)

Answer 10

Move to the closest potential landing site.

Question 11

Wh-in-situ

Answer 11

When a wh-phrase does not move

Question 12

Echo questions and Intonational Questions

Answer 12

Question forms that are licensed by the phonology (intonation and stress) and not by the syntax, although they may involve a special C.