Explain syntactic movement,NP-movement and WH-movement with examples.

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问题 Explain syntactic movement,NP-movement and WH-movement with examples.

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答案Syntactic movement is a syntactic phenomenon by which a constituent in a sentence moves out of its original place to a new position.It is dictated by traditional transformational rules,whose operation may change the syntactic representation of a sentence.NP-movement refers to the movement of a noun phrase from one position to another.It occurs,for example,when a sentence changes from the active voice to the passive voice,e.g., a.The man beat the boy. b.The boy was beaten by the man. Here the sentence b is the result of the movement of the NPs“the man”and“the boy”from their original positions in(a)to new positions,with“the man”postposing to the right and“the boy”preposing to the left. WH-movement refers to the phenomenon by which a WH-item such as“what”,“who”,“when”and “where”appears in sentence-initial or clause-initial position.WH-movement is obligatory in English which changes a sentence from affirmative to interrogative,e.g., a.He can speak several languages. b.What languages can he speak?

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